Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 18:56:15 -0700 From: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> To: Darren Pilgrim <dmp@bitfreak.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: em interrupt storm Message-ID: <43851DBF.9060702@samsco.org> In-Reply-To: <000401c5f099$f1ae1f30$642a15ac@smiley>
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Darren Pilgrim wrote: > From: Scott Long [mailto:scottl@samsco.org] > >>Darren Pilgrim wrote: >> >>>Until this gets "fixed" in FreeBSD, what should those of us who are >>>effectively stuck with this hardware do to avoid the problem? >> >>What I've done is vacated the use of irq16 on my machines by disabling >>things like usb and if_em. > > > Do the devices have to be really turned off (meaning disabled in the BIOS) > or do I just not load the corresponding driver? I think that either works. > > If nothing is using irq16, does the aliasing not occur or does it just > become transparent to FreeBSD? > > If no drivers request a particular interrupt vector, then it gets masked. The chipset probably still tries to deliver the interrupt, but it never makes it to the CPU and thus is transparent. Scotthome | help
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