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Date:      Sun, 2 Sep 2001 10:24:52 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mike Harding <mvh@ix.netcom.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Tagged queueing causes silo overflows? (was: ah! the dread 'silo overflow' returns!)
Message-ID:  <20010902102452.D59668@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010901232101.33FF513120@netcom1.netcom.com>; from mvh@ix.netcom.com on Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 04:21:01PM -0700
References:  <20010901232101.33FF513120@netcom1.netcom.com> <20010901234031.50B1313120@netcom1.netcom.com> <20010901232101.33FF513120@netcom1.netcom.com>

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On Saturday,  1 September 2001 at 16:21:01 -0700, Mike Harding wrote:
>
> I have been getting 'silo overflow' messages for a week or two, on
> recent buildworld (for, example, today).  I am using a 56K modem, 1.3
> GHz Athlon, IDE, etc.  Is this a known issue??? I remember this from
> the bad old days, but I haven't seen it in a while.

On Saturday,  1 September 2001 at 16:40:31 -0700, Mike Harding wrote:
>
> (I think) never mind - I think that this is related to tagged queuing,
> which got (re)enabled in the source.  I saw this earlier when I hacked
> the kernel source to support tagged queuing with my newish IBM drive -
> the newer kernels recognize this drive.  I had bad silo overflow
> issues when I had previously enabled the tagged queuing.

Hmm.  I'd be inclined to consider this a bug.  Looks as if the tagged
queueing might cause interrupts to be locked out for too long.

Greg
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