Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 06:27:21 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: during boot aue0 Message-ID: <4450C6B9.1070707@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <00ed01c669fb$87e94f80$6d00a8c0@alison> References: <a24358fb0604270519o19b4020eh2f41bad584933cf7@mail.gmail.com> <00ed01c669fb$87e94f80$6d00a8c0@alison>
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Tony Angelo wrote: > Hello, All > > What does this string (i get it during boot) : > > aue0: if_start running deferred for Giant > > Who is Giant ? :-) > > Thanks > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I believe "Giant" is a reference to the a portion of the internal task scheduler's universal lock in FreeBSD's kernel and can be enabled/disabled by using the ADAPTIVE_GIANT directive in the kernel config file. It may also be a fault in the way that either the driver for your network card is written or lack of support which is causing that issue to come up, as well. Here's a document on the supposed "Giant Lock", by the world famous (or at least FreeBSD famous ;).) Greg Lehey: <http://www.lemis.com/grog/SMPng/Singapore/paper.pdf>, and if you google "Giant deferred", you'll find a few documents that I'm referring to in the *BSD world. -Garrett
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