interrupt storm on MSI IXP600 based motherboards

[Dan Langille]

Marat N.Afanasyev wrote:
> Pete French wrote:
>>> trouble with onboard re(4) was resolved in -CURRENT and -STABLE, but 
>>> storms are not bound to ethernet only. storm may appear on any 
>>> device. if any device generates enough interrupts rate, storm will 
>>> arrive.
>>
>> Yes, I just got another storm, on my ATA controller this time. Ah
>> well, so much for the idea of disabling unneeded devices!
>>
>> -pete.
>>
> 
> it's a kind of magic, really. I built a new kernel with KDB and DDB and 
> after 1 day, 13:15 I'm still waiting for storm to arrive. And I added
> hw.acpi.osname="Linux" to /boot/loader.conf.

If that solution works, it'd got to leave a 'bad' taste in your mouth.  ;)

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