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On 4/14/2015 1:54 AM, Andre Albsmeier wrote:
>
> Is this an em specific issue or should one avoid TSO generally
> at the moment? That is, should I disable it on machines with
> msk (and maybe other) interfaces as well?

em specific I think.  This thread has some info on what might be going on

https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2014-September/080081.html

	---Mike


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