From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Dec 20 16: 1:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.speakeasy.net (mail5.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F109037B419 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2001 16:01:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 9458 invoked from network); 21 Dec 2001 00:01:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 21 Dec 2001 00:01:43 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 16:01:26 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: John Baldwin Subject: RE: FW: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha machdep.c src/sys/alpha/ Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 20-Dec-01 John Baldwin wrote: > If you've been having problems with SMP kernels, see if this fixes it. It > certainly greatly improves the stability of the DS20 I have here with an SMP > kernel. I would like to try and get interrupt preemption turned back on as > well with this if possible as this may fix the problems we were having with > that. Several of the chipsets didn't even bother to disable interrupts while > they fiddled with the ICU registers. Also note that there are lots of splhigh's still in sys/alpha which don't do anything atm. Most of them most likely need to become spin mutexes and I'll look at some of them in the coming weeks, however, if someone else wants to dive in and help, go for it. :) -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message