interrupt storm on MSI IXP600 based motherboards
Marat N.Afanasyev
amarat at ksu.ru
Wed Jan 21 11:23:27 PST 2009
Dan Langille wrote:
> 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. ;)
>
yeah, but it would taste not so bad as
hw.acpi.osname="Windows ..."
;)
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SY, Marat
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