From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 11 13:25:53 2002 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 83B0B37B400 for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:25:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from empty1.ekahuna.com (empty1.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 973C543E3B for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:25:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pjklist@ekahuna.com) Received: from pc-02 (pc02.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.197]) by empty1.ekahuna.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id com for ; Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:25:45 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" Organization: The Electric Kahuna Organization To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:25:44 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: intel etherexpress pro and fxp status?? Reply-To: pjklist@ekahuna.com In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Message-ID: <20020711202545466.AAA969@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:05:38 +0100 > From: Pete French > > > Thanks, bye." The only threads I remember around this were some people with > > specific problems on specific SMP motherboards. I dont recall any mass > > problems with the fxp cards... For what its worth, we have deployed some 50 > > The SMP problems also turned out to be nothing to do with the fxp cards > and everything to do with shared interrupts. But cards which generate a lot > of interrpts show this up well, hence it first showed up on FXP and has > been misrememberd by people as the "fxp problem". > > just make sure you arent sharing interrupts on an SMP box and you > will do fine. > > - -pcf. Holger Kipp sent me a message back on June 21 that says his problems with freezing/IRQ issues on an SMP box that uses a Symbios SCSI controller were solved with a patch/workaround from Gerard Roudier who said he was planning to commit a polished version as soon as he got some time. (Not sure if it's there yet, and I'm not very good at looking at CVS repositories, but a box here updated on 7/7 still shows old date stamps on the sym drivers, and the last apparent change to the module in question (sym_hipd.c) was around 4/26, based on the the FreeBSD CVS webpage.) Phil -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message