From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 13 11:36:13 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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 85D8216A403; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:36:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from spartak@aif.ru) Received: from mail.aif.ru (mail.aif.ru [85.21.212.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A842143D4C; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:36:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from spartak@aif.ru) Received: from ppp85-141-144-35.pppoe.mtu-net.ru ([85.141.144.35] helo=[192.168.0.2]) by mail.aif.ru with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.61 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Gja6k-0003Ax-R4; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 14:36:11 +0300 Message-ID: <455858A3.9060701@aif.ru> Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 14:36:03 +0300 From: =?KOI8-R?Q?=F3=D0=C1=D2=D4=C1=CB_=F2=C1=C4=DE=C5=CE=CB=CF?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <455768F3.4000407@FreeBSD.org> <455786DB.4020807@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <455786DB.4020807@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=KOI8-R; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Score: -4.0 (----) X-Spam-Report: -1.8 ALL_TRUSTED Passed through trusted hosts only via SMTP -2.6 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 0.4 AWL AWL: From: address is in the auto white-list X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:54:21 +0000 Cc: "O. Hartmann" , sem@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: sio driver sucks X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:36:13 -0000 O. Hartmann пишет: > Sergey Matveychuk wrote: > >> Do you know an old sio driver is hardly usable? >> >> There are many silo overflows, working with a terminal device is a >> nightmare. There was a report about one crash with a message about a >> spinlock holed more than 5 seconds (there is no core dump because it has >> not repeated). >> >> After a discussion in a Russian FIDO group I've change it on uart and >> the problems gone. >> >> I think a default driver should be changed from sio to uart until it >> will be fixed. >> >> > > Had those overflows many times when I used FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE, > 6.1-STABLE and a modem. > But this never had a so bad influence forcing me into using uart. > I had serious problems with sio on Intel STL2 motherboard and recent stable. Massive silo overflows (modem was almost unusable) and at least 1 sio-related panic (spinlock held for more than 5 sec). Now I changed sio to uart ant it works like a charm. All problems gone. -- Spartak Radchenko SVR1-RIPE