Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 15:18:46 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, (Hartmann, O.) <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> Subject: Re: Spontanous reboot of SMP system and FBSD 4.3 Message-ID: <XFMail.010430151846.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200104302210.PAA12613@usr01.primenet.com>
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On 30-Apr-01 Terry Lambert wrote: > > On some of the Tyan Tiger boards I've fought withm the system > becomes extremely unstable because the invltlb() call after > switching to 4M pages is not correctly communicated to the I/O > APIC, and unless you have enough memory allocations to force all > 8 4M entries out, it can lose its mind, relative to the TLB of > one or more of the main CPUs. Ummm, what the heck are you talking about? The I/O APIC routes interrupts, it doesn't access memory. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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