Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 13:49:33 -0700 (MST) From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: Jonathan Weiss <tomonage2@gmx.de> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mlx driver related kernel panic in Freebsd 5.2.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <20040301134622.I12830@pooker.samsco.home> In-Reply-To: <BC695E88.DE6A%tomonage2@gmx.de> References: <BC695E88.DE6A%tomonage2@gmx.de>
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On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Jonathan Weiss wrote: > > > > Great to hear, thanks a lot for testing it. It looks like the problem can > > manifest itself when a whole lot of I/O comes into the driver at once. An > > easy way that I've found to generate a pattern like this is to turn > > softupdates off, then start 5-10 concurrent copies of large trees with > > lots of files. Then when the pagedaemon does its 30-second interval run, > > it'll likely send 500-1000 i/o requests at once to the card. > > > > Scott > > Hi Scott, > > > Can you please backport the patch to 5.2.1? > > Thanks, > Jonathan Unfortunately, no. The RELENG_5_2 branch is closed to all but security fixes from now on. Had I known about this problem before 5.2.1 was released then I would have made sure that it was fixed before the release. Scott
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