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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, Julian Elischer wrote:
>
> >
> > 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

Fair enough.  Bruce and I are swamped at the moment, but one of us will
make a note of it.

Scott