From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 8 17:11:30 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4DC516A422 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 17:11:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from server.baldwin.cx (66-23-211-162.clients.speedfactory.net [66.23.211.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40AD843D5F for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 17:11:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (john@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k28HBIsT036628; Wed, 8 Mar 2006 12:11:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) From: John Baldwin To: Mike Tancsa Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 12:09:34 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200603071502.46074.jhb@freebsd.org> <200603081103.31669.jhb@freebsd.org> <6.2.3.4.0.20060308114730.104f2ed0@64.7.153.2> In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.0.20060308114730.104f2ed0@64.7.153.2> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200603081209.36289.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1318/Tue Mar 7 15:55:18 2006 on server.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.0 required=4.2 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on server.baldwin.cx Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] MFC of the intr_event stuff X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 17:11:31 -0000 On Wednesday 08 March 2006 11:51, Mike Tancsa wrote: > At 11:03 AM 08/03/2006, John Baldwin wrote: > >On Tuesday 07 March 2006 19:45, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > > At 07:29 PM 07/03/2006, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > > >At 03:02 PM 07/03/2006, John Baldwin wrote: > > > >>I have a somewhat large patch that MFC's some of the cleanups to the > > > >>interrupt code that needs some testing before it is MFC'd. > > > > > > > > > > > >It seems to help my sio overflows that are described in > > > > > > > > > > > >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=51982 > > > > > > Actually, it only helps on the ICH box. On the VIA, I still need to > > > make the change that Bruce Evans suggests > > > >The reason it might help is that if your sio(4) device shares its IRQ > >with another driver, it would previously have been forced to use a > >non-FAST handler, but now sio(4) can always use a FAST handler. > > > Hi, > Thanks for the info. Apart from manually patching, is there > a better way to control for this ? Not currently. It could always be patched to make that '4' number a loader tunable, then you could keep the change via an entry in /boot/loader.conf w/o having to maintain a local patch. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org