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Date:      Thu, 29 Jun 2000 00:14:50 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Trust FM560LKI modem force 8250 
Message-ID:  <200006290714.AAA01617@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 29 Jun 2000 00:33:08 MDT." <200006290633.AAA83340@harmony.village.org> 

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> In message <200006290635.XAA01404@mass.osd.bsdi.com> Mike Smith writes:
> : > In message <3957C665.272BEC3A@genprofile.com> David Bauer writes:
> : > : My sio.c is not exactly the same (4.0-RELEASE) but I found the two
> : > : places and changed it. But unfortunately this does not solve the
> : > : problem. The interrupt buffer overflows are still there.
> : > : Any other ideas ?
> : > 
> : > The problem isn't with your FIFO.  Like I said before the problem is
> : > with your application.  At least that's usually what the interrupt
> : > level problems mean.
> : 
> : No, that's tty-level overflows.  See sio(4).
> 
> Ah.  It is a possible problem in the bottom half of the driver.  I got 
> confused.  I wonder what the problem could be...

Something is blocking splsoftty() for a long time, I think, so that the 
interrupt-level buffer is not drained by the code that feeds the tty 
subsystem.  The entire sio(4) architecture is extremely delay-sensitive.

-- 
\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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