[patch[ twa, bus_dma.h, busdma_machdep.c (amd64)

Kim Culhan w8hdkim at gmail.com
Sat Apr 29 22:00:46 UTC 2006


On Sat, April 29, 2006 5:03 pm, Scott Long said:
> Sean Bryant wrote:
>
>> I loaded up 6.1-Stable on a Dual Dual Core Opteron, with a 3ware
>> 9550sx-4lp raid card in it and noticed a horrid boot time.
>> Well after investigating the issue it turns out the twa driver had
>> problems creating the bus_dmamaps. It was creating 255 request buffers
>> and giving each of them a dma map.
>
> This is exactly what is supposed to happen.
>
>
>> Yippie! This leaves me with about a 7 - 10 minute boot time.

Running a 3ware 9550sx-4lp on FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE from 3-25-06
and no problem with long boot time, is this unique to amd64 ?

-kim

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