Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 08:48:55 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: alc@freebsd.org, Alan Cox <alan.l.cox@gmail.com>, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, Christian Zander <czander@nvidia.com> Subject: Re: nvidia-driver 195.22 use horribly broken on amd64 between r206173 and Message-ID: <201006140848.55979.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4C15A09B.8080501@FreeBSD.org> References: <AANLkTil33IEVGXxsjV1oqfBgKQq-aIJ9Ur1U0Gn8Gplt@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTilinCqVDPajshyu9hkyGbj12rgh_prrrb-KNhAa@mail.gmail.com> <4C15A09B.8080501@FreeBSD.org>
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On Sunday 13 June 2010 11:23:07 pm Doug Barton wrote:
> On 06/13/10 19:09, Alan Cox wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Doug Barton<dougb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> >> On 06/01/10 08:26, John Baldwin wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> I've asked the driver author if the calls to vm_page_wire() and
> >>> vm_page_unwire() can simply be removed but have not heard back yet.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Is there any news on this? I have updated to the latest current so I'm
> >> running the nv driver now, but I'd like to get the nvidia driver running
> >> again.
> >>
> >>
> > Yes, the unnecessary (and now problematic) wiring and unwiring calls will
be
> > removed in a future release of the driver.
>
> Excellent! Any ETA? Or are there patches against an existing version of
> the driver?
I would just remove the calls to vm_page_wire() and vm_page_unwire() along
with the immediately adjacent calls to vm_page_{un,}lock_queues().
--
John Baldwin
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