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Date:      Mon, 25 Mar 2019 11:37:50 -0600
From:      Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
To:        Karl Denninger <karl@denninger.net>, ticso@cicely.de
Cc:        "freebsd-arm@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Options for FBSD support with LCD device - new project [[Maybe related: I2c issues on the Pi2]]
Message-ID:  <30c8e58c15aec809522b5aa563755d66fea0f4ac.camel@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <d96c7f42-f01b-8990-a558-ee92d631b51d@denninger.net>
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On Mon, 2019-03-25 at 12:16 -0500, Karl Denninger wrote:
> On 3/25/2019 12:05, Ian Lepore wrote:
> > On Mon, 2019-03-25 at 11:58 -0500, Karl Denninger wrote:
> > > [...]
> > 
> > Is the interrupt rate consistent from second to second?  Running
> > 'vmstat 1' for a while might be useful to see that.  That many
> > interrupts almost sounds like a line is floating, but if that were the
> > case I'd expect a widely varying number of int/sec.
> > 
> > If you build custom kernels, it might be helpful to apply r345475
> > locally... it will display partial device names instead of just '+'
> > when the name doesn't fit in the vmstat output.
> > 
> > -- Ian
> 
> No, but it's in the same general range -- around 500k although it does
> flop around some, and occasionally by a lot (e.g. if I sit and watch it
> it'll occasionally put up VERY different numbers -- e.g. a ~730k number,
> then it goes back, etc.)
> 
> I don't generally build custom kernels on these but I CAN put this into
> the STABLE tree I'm building that from since I keep a separate one for
> Crochet builds on these boxes.  Where do I find that specific delta?  (I
> usually just svn things and I don't want to roll it all the way back to
> there, right -- or do I?)
> 

Apply this patch...

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/kern/kern_intr.c?view=patch&r1=345475&r2=345474&pathrev=345475

-- Ian




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