I'm off in a few days for a couple months of tourism in Europe (no, no need
for sympathy!), so I'm dumping these couple ideas on you and running.
I think shutdown time has gotten uglier and slower than it needs to be.
I want to apply these patches (well, at least the first one) before I escape
radar range. Your job is to not object much. :-)
Patch 1 replaces:
Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `bufdaemon' to stop...stopped
with
Stopping bufdaemon
Also:
syncing disks... 10 10 3
done
returns to the traditional
syncing disks... 10 10 3 done
Patch 2 is smaller and possibly controversial. Normally bufdaemon and
syncer are sleeping when they are told to suspend. This delays shutdown
by a few boring seconds. With this patch, it is zippier. I expect people
to complain about this shortcut, but every sleeping process should expect
to be woken for no reason at all. Basic kernel premise.
I've been running these patches on a 4.x machine for a while now. No
problems except I am now surprised by the slow and ugly shutdown of
unpatched machines. :-)
I apologise that I've not tested these against -current. That's the bit
that I've skipped because I'm out of time. There should be no difference
between 4.x and -current in this area though. These patches will apply
cleanly against both.
Cheers,
Stephen.
Patch 1:
Index: kern_shutdown.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c,v
retrieving revision 1.76
diff -u -r1.76 kern_shutdown.c
--- kern_shutdown.c 2000/07/04 11:25:22 1.76
+++ kern_shutdown.c 2000/07/06 15:02:21
@@ -247,7 +247,6 @@
sync(&proc0, NULL);
DELAY(50000 * iter);
}
- printf("\n");
/*
* Count only busy local buffers to prevent forcing
* a fsck if we're just a client of a wedged NFS server
@@ -261,6 +260,8 @@
bp->b_vp->v_mount, mnt_list);
continue;
}
+ if (nbusy == 0)
+ printf("\n");
nbusy++;
#if defined(SHOW_BUSYBUFS) || defined(DIAGNOSTIC)
printf(
@@ -593,12 +594,11 @@
return;
p = (struct proc *)arg;
- printf("Waiting (max %d seconds) for system process `%s' to stop...",
- kproc_shutdown_wait, p->p_comm);
+ printf("Stopping %s", p->p_comm);
error = suspend_kproc(p, kproc_shutdown_wait * hz);
if (error == EWOULDBLOCK)
- printf("timed out\n");
+ printf(": timed out\n");
else
- printf("stopped\n");
+ printf("\n");
}
Patch 2:
Index: kern_kthread.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/kern/kern_kthread.c,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.5 kern_kthread.c
--- kern_kthread.c 2000/01/10 08:00:58 1.5
+++ kern_kthread.c 2000/08/05 15:32:06
@@ -116,6 +116,12 @@
*/
if ((p->p_flag & P_SYSTEM) == 0)
return (EINVAL);
+ /*
+ * The target process is probably just snoozing. Wake it up so
+ * that it will notice that it should suspend itself.
+ */
+ if (p->p_wchan != NULL)
+ wakeup(p->p_wchan);
SIGADDSET(p->p_siglist, SIGSTOP);
return tsleep((caddr_t)&p->p_siglist, PPAUSE, "suspkp", timo);
}
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