Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:36:03 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>, Oliver Brandmueller <ob@e-Gitt.NET> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2 Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.0.20060927133407.17652f50@sentex.net> In-Reply-To: <451AA7B1.5080202@samsco.org> References: <451A1375.5080202@gneto.com> <20060927071538.GF22229@e-Gitt.NET> <451A4189.5020906@samsco.org> <20060927152824.GJ22229@e-Gitt.NET> <20060927155553.GB14563@icarus.home.lan> <20060927155904.GM22229@e-Gitt.NET> <451AA7B1.5080202@samsco.org>
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At 12:32 PM 9/27/2006, Scott Long wrote:
>My theory here is that something in the kernel, likely VM/VFS, is
>holding the Giant lock for an inordinate amount of time. During this
>time, an interrupt fires on the shared em/ichsmb interrupt. The em
Hi Scott,
Do you think this issue is something particular to Intel
based chipsets, and specifically NICs that share their interrupt with
ichsmb or the USB subsystem ? I have not gone through all the
threads, but I dont recall people with say, AMD based boards running
into this issue.
---Mike
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