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On 16/11/2011, at 9:43 PM, Vincent Hoffman wrote:

> On 14/11/2011 19:42, John Baldwin wrote:
>> On Thursday, November 10, 2011 5:59:28 am Vincent Hoffman wrote:
>>> Well the dell has been up for about 19 hours now using MSI, I ran=20
>>> bonnie++ a few times on it and have now stuck it in a permanent loop=20=

>>> (will look in from time to time.) Are there any tests you'd like=20
>>> run/info you'd like?
>> Actually, can you please test =
www.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/mfi_msi.patch?
>> You will have to set the hw.mfi.msi=3D1 tunable to enable MSI =
support.  This
>> is a commit candidate if it works.  Thanks.
>>=20
> Applied and running with bonnie++ overnight. All good for me at least.


Boots for me with hw.mfi.msi=3D1, fails to boot with mw.mfi.msi=3D0, =
giving repeated timeout messages pretty much as expected. Won't be able =
to put load on it until later tomorrow or next week.

Regards,

Jan.