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Date:      Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:14:32 -0800
From:      Sean Bruno <sbruno@miralink.com>
To:        Dieter <freebsd@sopwith.solgatos.com>
Cc:        freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org, bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/118093: firewire bus reset hogs CPU,	causing data to be lost
Message-ID:  <49473938.80906@miralink.com>
In-Reply-To: <200812150330.DAA27074@sopwith.solgatos.com>
References:  <200812150330.DAA27074@sopwith.solgatos.com>

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Dieter wrote:
> I found the source of this problem.  When a firewire bus resets,
> the firewire driver prints a few lines to the console,
> using printf(9) and device_printf(9).  I suspect that these are
> running at splfw aka splimp, locking out other i/o.
>
> Commenting out the *printf() calls fixes the problem, but that
> isn't a good solution.
>
> Would changing the *printf() calls to log(9) calls be safe?
> ("safe" meaning other i/o doesn't get locked out)
>
> Ah, for the good old days when 19200 baud seemed fast...
> _______________________________________________
>   
Which one are you looking at Dieter?

Sean



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