More ULE bugs fixed.
Robert Watson
rwatson at freebsd.org
Wed Nov 5 07:50:02 PST 2003
On Wed, 5 Nov 2003, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> On (2003/11/04 15:46), Jeff Roberson wrote:
>
> > > The thing is, I'm using 4BSD, not ULE, so I wouldn't trouble Jeff to
> > > look for a cause for that specific problem in ULE.
> >
> > How long have you been seeing this? Are you using a usb mouse? Can you
> > try with PS/2 if you are?
>
> Since my last update, Fri Oct 24 17:47:22.
>
> I am using a USB mouse, but don't have a PS/2 one. I'm also using
> moused, and my WM is sawfish.
>
> The problem with all these reports is that they're scattered. It's hard
> to pin down exactly what the common elements are. Indeed, we may be
> looking at combinations of elements.
>
> I don't have time to be more helpful, which is why I hadn't complained.
> I just wanted to include the datapoint that over-active mouse behaviour
> under load exists under SCHED_4BSD as well.
>
> Incidentally, this is under ATA disk load. I don't really push my CPU.
There's been some speculation that the PS/2 mouse problem could be due to
high interrupt latency for non-fast interrupt handlers (especially ones
not MPSAFE) in 5.x. I think it would make a lot of sense for us to push
Giant off both the PS/2 mouse and syscons interrupt handlers in the near
future. For syscons, this would also improve the reliability of dropping
into the debugger from a non-serial console.
Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert at fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories
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