From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 17 16:42:09 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C3CB16A41F; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:42:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from speedfactory.net (mail6.speedfactory.net [66.23.216.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9BFC43D77; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:42:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from server.baldwin.cx (unverified [66.23.211.162]) by speedfactory.net (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 2124643 for multiple; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:42:04 -0500 Received: from localhost (john@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jAHGfvtK023178; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:41:57 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:35:51 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <20051117010651.97608.qmail@web50303.mail.yahoo.com> <20051117143322.lvz347pzkcg480co@netchild.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20051117143322.lvz347pzkcg480co@netchild.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511171135.53903.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=4.2 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on server.baldwin.cx X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=1653887525 Cc: alan bryan , Alexander Leidinger , FreeBSD current mailing list , "Bjoern A. Zeeb" Subject: Re: [PATCH] nve(4) locking cleanup X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:42:09 -0000 On Thursday 17 November 2005 08:33 am, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > "Bjoern A. Zeeb" wrote: > > On Wed, 16 Nov 2005, alan bryan wrote: > >> Is this supposed to solve the "device timeout (64)" > >> messages? > > > > No. > > I've seen some DragonFly commit logs > (http://www.dragonflybsd.org/cvsweb/src/sys/dev/netif/nv/if_nv.c) which > talk about fixing problems in the nve code regarding those timeout issues > (but there seem to be problems in the nvidia provided object code, see > http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/users/2005-11/msg00027.html). > Maybe someone with such a card is interested to have a look at them. Hmm, there are a couple of changes such as calling pfnInit() in attach() and calling pfnClearTXDesc() in nve_stop() that might be interesting. I've stuck those in my work tree and have made a seperate patch relative to HEAD if folks want to try them out: http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/nve_dffixes.patch -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org