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Date:      Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:23:12 +0300
From:      "Marat N.Afanasyev" <amarat@ksu.ru>
To:        Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>
Subject:   Re: interrupt storm on MSI IXP600 based motherboards
Message-ID:  <49777620.8080307@ksu.ru>
In-Reply-To: <49774D93.2080503@langille.org>
References:  <E1LNnFa-0003ze-7k@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>	<49774BAE.3000809@ksu.ru> <49774D93.2080503@langille.org>

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Dan Langille wrote:
> Marat N.Afanasyev wrote:
>> Pete French wrote:
>>>> trouble with onboard re(4) was resolved in -CURRENT and -STABLE, but 
>>>> storms are not bound to ethernet only. storm may appear on any 
>>>> device. if any device generates enough interrupts rate, storm will 
>>>> arrive.
>>>
>>> Yes, I just got another storm, on my ATA controller this time. Ah
>>> well, so much for the idea of disabling unneeded devices!
>>>
>>> -pete.
>>>
>>
>> it's a kind of magic, really. I built a new kernel with KDB and DDB 
>> and after 1 day, 13:15 I'm still waiting for storm to arrive. And I added
>> hw.acpi.osname="Linux" to /boot/loader.conf.
> 
> If that solution works, it'd got to leave a 'bad' taste in your mouth.  ;)
> 

yeah, but it would taste not so bad as

hw.acpi.osname="Windows ..."

;)

-- 
SY, Marat



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