kern/118093: firewire bus reset hogs CPU, causing data to be lost

Dieter freebsd at sopwith.solgatos.com
Sat Dec 20 21:30:04 PST 2008


The following reply was made to PR kern/118093; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dieter <freebsd at sopwith.solgatos.com>
To: freebsd-firewire at freebsd.org, bug-followup at freebsd.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/118093: firewire bus reset hogs CPU, causing data to be lost 
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:24:23 +0000

 In message <494DAEB1.1070909 at miralink.com>, Sean Bruno writes:
 
 > I setup my system to execute a bus reset every 1 second, simultaneously, 
 > I started copying a large
 > file onto the system see if anything would happen.
 > 
 > I saw no change to copy speed reported by SCP during the entire 
 > transaction.  I also see no change
 > to the system load while this is occurring.
 
 Does your system have a RS-232 console or VGA console?
 The problem might be specific to RS-232.
 
 > This seems indicative of "something else" going on.
 
 Any idea what this "something else" might be?
 
 Does anyone have a clue why my spl calls are returning 0 ?


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