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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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