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me (addition of vn_rdwr_inchunks). The problem Yahoo is solving is that if you have large process images core dumping, or you have a large number of forked processes all core dumping at the same time, the original coredump code would leave the vnode locked throughout. This can cause the directory vnode to get locked up, which can cause the parent directory vnode to get locked up, and so on all the way to the root node, locking the entire machine up for extremely long periods of time. This patch solves the problem in two ways. First it uses an advisory non-blocking lock to abort multiple processes trying to core to the same file. Second (my contribution) it chunks up the writes and uses bwillwrite() to avoid holding the vnode locked while blocking in the buffer cache. Submitted by: ps Reviewed by: dillon MFC after: 2 weeks |
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