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Date:      Tue, 04 May 2004 16:12:37 +0200
From:      "Carlos Velasco" <freebsd@newipnet.com>
To:        "Bruce Evans" <bde@zeta.org.au>, "Burkard Meyendriesch" <bm@malepartus.de>
Cc:        atkin901@yahoo.com
Subject:   Re[2]: sio: lots of silo overflows on Asus K8V with Moxa SmartioC104H/PCI solved
Message-ID:  <200405041612370183.1C0502B8@192.168.128.16>
In-Reply-To: <20040504221059.W9822@gamplex.bde.org>
References:  <20040426111754.38a855c4.bm@malepartus.de> <20040426233925.Y5300@gamplex.bde.org> <c6u3nd$f8q$1@sea.gmane.org> <20040501212314.N20783@gamplex.bde.org> <20040503145149.R3992@gamplex.bde.org> <20040503094236.6b7dc4a5.bm@malepartus.de> <20040504221059.W9822@gamplex.bde.org>

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On 05/05/2004 at 0:04 Bruce Evans wrote:

>So much for my theory that the problem is contention with a low priority
>thread.  Since holding a spin lock or otherwise disabling interrupts for
>too long would also break the PUC_FASTINTR case, the problem must be that
>the highest priority runnable thread (which with my patch can only be the
>sio (puc) ithread if that thread is runnable) is not always run.  This is
>quite likely to be just the old bug that handling of interrupts which
>can't be handled immediately might be delayed for too long.  From
>ithread_schedule():

Bruce,

Could this be relationated to my problem with "interrupt-level buffer
overflows " posted on next thread?
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-May/026697.html

Regards,
Carlos Velasco




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