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

Dieter freebsd at sopwith.solgatos.com
Sat Dec 20 21:27:02 PST 2008


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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