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Date:      Mon, 20 Sep 1999 09:39:28 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 2xPIIIx450 results & NFS results 
Message-ID:  <199909201639.JAA32335@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Sep 1999 17:52:16 %2B0200." <23502.937842736@critter.freebsd.dk> 

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> >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 mind's the standard       \\  Mike Smith
\\  of the man.                   \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\    -- Joseph Merrick           \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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