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Date:      Thu, 01 Oct 1998 13:24:36 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
To:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DPT_RESET - Do We Still Need It?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.981001132356.shimon@simon-shapiro.org>
In-Reply-To: <199810011551.JAA27451@narnia.plutotech.com>

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Justin T. Gibbs, On 01-Oct-98 you wrote:
>  In article <XFMail.981001090534.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> you wrote:
> > The problem manifested itself by shutting the kernel down (including
> > calls
> > to all registered at_shutdown functions), then proceeding to do massive
> > I/O
> > to the (already shutdown) disk subsystem.  This was during kernel
> > panics
> > that resulted in kernel dumps.
>  
>  I corrected this by adding the SHUTDOWN_FINAL at_shutdown state.  This
>  hook class is called only after a system dump, if any, is performed.
>  I needed this for the adaptec originally, but the CAM dpt driver uses it
>  now too.

Great!  I do not have to bother with this ugly hack, then.  There will be a
minor patch posted soon (I need to see that it works), that takes care of
some (most, all?) of the lost IRQs.

I am currently stressing the driver and the kernel around it and will post
results soon.

>  
>  --
>  Justin



Sincerely Yours,                 Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG
                                             770.265.7340
Simon Shapiro

Unwritten code has no bugs and executes at twice the speed of mouth


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