Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 13:08:59 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mlx driver related kernel panic in Freebsd 5.2.1-RELEASE Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0403011308080.62088-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0403011305550.62088-100000@InterJet.elischer.org>
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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 > >
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