From owner-cvs-all Wed Dec 13 5:14:41 2000 From owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 13 05:14:38 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD22837B402; Wed, 13 Dec 2000 05:14:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA07236; Thu, 14 Dec 2000 00:14:31 +1100 Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 00:14:30 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@besplex.bde.org To: John Baldwin Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_ktr.c In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > On 12-Dec-00 Bruce Evans wrote: > > Mutex operations actually resulted only on the i386 arch, only if the > > i8254 timecounter was used (i.e., mainly on pre-PCI pre-Pentium > > systems)... > > It would crash both my dual P3-600 and my P3-700 laptop, so it wasn't limited > to just pre-PCI. :-/ ... The PIIX4 timecounter is used on many PCI systems. I was over-optimistic in hoping that most post-Pentium PCI systems have one. What chipsets do your systems have? Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message