From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 20 20: 5:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2FAE14C97 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 1999 20:05:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 348691CC5; Tue, 21 Sep 1999 11:05:48 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Mike Smith , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2xPIIIx450 results & NFS results In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Sep 1999 18:52:57 +0200." <23777.937846377@critter.freebsd.dk> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 11:05:48 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <19990921030548.348691CC5@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <199909201639.JAA32335@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith writes: > >> >Use a watchdog timeout like you should for any device that may hang. > >> >Don't waste time running it every clock tick. > >> > > >> >ISTR that we thought that the bug might be caused by a bug in unwanted > >> >SMI interrupt handling. > >> > >> If anybody can reproduce this reliably on a *BX chipset I have > >> code that will block SMI interrupts we can test with... > > > >I'm not sure I follow what the alleged problem is here; who is handling > >the "unwanted" SMIs? If it's the BIOS, the last thing you want to do > >is block all SMIs. > > The problem is that the RTC stalls. It is suspected that it could > be long SMI durations which is responsible for this. To confirm > the diagnosis disabling SMI is feasible. > > You system will not blow up if you disable SMI, I have a system > happily chugging away here with SMI disabled for a month. > > Doing so even idiot-proofs the soft-off button :-) Tor Egge's patches are more finely grained than that. They disable the SMI traps when the OS tries to access ports 0x70/0x71 only and leaves the rest of the SMI's alone (including soft off buttons) Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message