Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 12:09:34 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] MFC of the intr_event stuff Message-ID: <200603081209.36289.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.0.20060308114730.104f2ed0@64.7.153.2> References: <200603071502.46074.jhb@freebsd.org> <200603081103.31669.jhb@freebsd.org> <6.2.3.4.0.20060308114730.104f2ed0@64.7.153.2>
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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 <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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