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Date:      25 Feb 2001 14:00:53 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Cc:        Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Giving up on buffers
Message-ID:  <xzppug6j4sa.fsf_-_@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Matt Dillon's message of "Fri, 23 Feb 2001 09:56:10 -0800 (PST)"
References:  <200102231206.EAA12234@beastie.mckusick.com> <200102231756.f1NHuAX83112@earth.backplane.com>

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Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> writes:
>     (2) the I/O for the buffer synchronization is initiated but interrupts
>     are winding up being disabled by the halt code due to holding Giant
>     and not sleeping (more likely).  That all I can think of.  We've hit
>     the interrupt disablement problem before in -current, it's probably
>     something simliar.

Sounds likely. On my laptop, the "giving up on n buffers" message is
usually accompanied by an ata0 timeout.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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