Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 13:14:28 -0700 From: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net> To: dg@root.com Cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: ed0 timeouts Message-ID: <199610312014.NAA07284@clem.systemsix.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 25 Oct 1996 15:34:21 PDT." <199610252234.PAA09023@root.com>
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Hi, > >>like a problem acking ISA interrupts, or perhaps a bug in the handling of > >>the interrupt masks. > > > >if it were a mask problem I would expect it to be more (always) prevelant, > >but I suppose that doesn't eliminate the possibility of a race condition > >on a mask. As I mentioned earlier all the other hardware is perfectly > >happy with this code: keyboard, disk controller, etc. Peter reports > >the floppy INTs work, don't know if the sio does or not... > > The network card likely has the highest burst/peak interrupt rate of all of > these (except perhaps for the sio). > > >I was hoping someone would mention some problem with these boards and > >the INTA timing or somesuch thing. When STefan gets some "PCI black magic" > >fixed for me I will be able to substitute an SMP PCI Ultra. > > I assume you mean "SMC PCI Ultra"? As you suggest, that's going to need a > few lines of code added to if_ed_p.c before it will work. > > -DG > > David Greenman > Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project FYI, I now have an SMC PCI 10B2 card running in the SMP kernel and am seeing NO signs of INTerrupt loss. This is with the 'de' driver. -- Steve Passe | powered by smp@csn.net | FreeBSD -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzHe7tEAAAEEAM274wAEEdP+grIrV6UtBt54FB5ufifFRA5ujzflrvlF8aoE 04it5BsUPFi3jJLfvOQeydbegexspPXL6kUejYt2OeptHuroIVW5+y2M2naTwqtX WVGeBP6s2q/fPPAS+g+sNZCpVBTbuinKa/C4Q6HJ++M9AyzIq5EuvO0a8Rr9AAUR tBlTdGV2ZSBQYXNzZSA8c21wQGNzbi5uZXQ+ =ds99 -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
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