From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 30 19:28:27 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AAF216A4CE for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 19:28:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB31B43D1F for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 19:28:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan.cojocar@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 69so283216wra for ; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:28:26 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=Gz1wBBY/yFN69Z/VZLSqzYfX7f9p93XzvbzUwUWFt6wxDzOOVCQENIMMCVeZY0523hHB0sm69YhyR5B+mxJcRlylUuc6LUGsMMagf4eg5AJcNa4v+A4i/q8JkEfR4Qp2Ujmk8CU64MNwHifgaZHLvwhEWFiJJcX71PUAJ6p674M= Received: by 10.54.68.18 with SMTP id q18mr741111wra; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:28:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.26.4 with HTTP; Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:28:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:28:25 +0300 From: Dan Cojocar To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20050330123458.T52981@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <6.2.1.2.0.20050329141154.04e19838@64.7.153.2> <6.2.1.2.0.20050329143237.02f15990@64.7.153.2> <20050329154013.B52981@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> <20050330104117.A52981@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> <20050330123458.T52981@lexi.siliconlandmark.com> Subject: Re: Interrupt storm X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Dan Cojocar List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 19:28:27 -0000 On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:54:18 -0500 (EST), Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Dan Cojocar wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 10:53:48 -0500 (EST), Andre Guibert de Bruet wrote: > >> On Wed, 30 Mar 2005, Dan Cojocar wrote: > >>> > >>> I tried running GENERIC and i get the following lor and watchdog > >>> timeout, no interrupt storms: > >> --- 8< --- --- 8< --- > >>> Here is the full dmesg: http://cs.ubbcluj.ro/~dan/dmesg.txt.generic > >>> I tried also my kernel with apic, i don't get interrupt storms but > >>> i get watchdog timeout message just like with GENERIC. > >>> Here is the full dmesg: http://cs.ubbcluj.ro/~dan/dmesg.txt.apic > >>> And finally i tried my kernel without apic and without acpi, it's > >>> running just fine, no interrupt storms, no watchdog timeout, but i > >>> don't have acpi :(, here is the final > >>> dmesg: http://cs.ubbcluj.ro/~dan/dmesg.txt.noacpi. > >> > >> It looks like your motherboard's DSDT is doing something hokey. I would > >> complain to the board manufacturer about this. For the timebeing, you can > >> dump the DSDT into ASL format, modify it, compile it back to DSDT and load > >> a proper version on system startup. If this is your first time, you > >> probably want to run "acpidump -d > my.asl" and make the resulting file > >> available somewhere. > >> > >> Would you also mind sharing the kernel config file that was used to build > >> the kernel that gaves you the mother of all interrupt parties? > >> > > Here is my asl: http://cs.ubbcluj.ro/~dan/my.asl > > And here is my kernel config: http://cs.ubbcluj.ro/~dan/FREE > > I am looking at your kernel config file and it looks pretty much like a > stripped down version of GENERIC. I do have some observations: Yes it's a stripped version of GENERIC. > - "device agp" is commented out. Is there any particular reason for this? > Does the machine not boot with it on? nForce chipsets provide generic agp > support. I use agp as a module. > - atapicam is currently broken on CURRENT. See sos@'s recent ata-mkIII > headsup announcement for additional details. My current is from yesterday, sos did his commit today, that is why i have atapicam. > You might also want to take note of the following: > > - You are specifying a "maxusers" parameter. This is no longer required > for normal operation. The kernel does a pretty good job of auto-tuning > itself. I presume there is a reason for having selected such a low number. > - The default scheduler in CURRENT is 4BSD not ULE (This might cause you > to encounter edge cases down the road). I'm running with ULE for some time and it's very stable, i use ULE on all my machines and i don't have problems. I will do a test with 4BSD but i don't think that this is the problem. > - You commented out "device random". This causes your system to use > alternate (and arguably less secure) entropy sources for its PRNG. random is a module too. > > I haven't really taken a look at the ASL yet. There are people on this > list that are better qualified than myself that could lend you a helping > hand with it in far less time than I ever could. I added one such person > on the CC list... :-) Thank you, Dan