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Date:      Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:41:54 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Marvell Yukon msk/msi problem
Message-ID:  <200711150941.54675.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <E1HbyWx-000A27-1l@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il>
References:  <E1HbyWx-000A27-1l@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il>

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On Thursday 12 April 2007 08:36:02 am Danny Braniss wrote:
> hi,
> 	The if_msk works fine under -current, but under -stable it
> does not use the MSI capability, and since it's a shared IRQ, it works
> less than optimal under heavy cpu load.
> 	Pyun YongHyeon suggested to search for help here :-)
> 
> from the if_msk:
> 	...
> 		pci_alloc_msi(dev, &msic) == 0) 
> 	...
> under -current pci_alloc_msi(...) returns 0, but under -stable
> this fails.

MSI is not enabled by default in 6-stable.  You need to set
'hw.pci.enable_msi=1' in the loader to enable it.

-- 
John Baldwin



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