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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>
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cc: Jonathan Weiss <tomonage2@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: mlx driver related kernel panic in Freebsd 5.2.1-RELEASE
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> 
> On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Scott Long wrote:
> 
> > 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.

At least an errata item referring to a patch


> >