Marvell Yukon (msk) network card causes the "sticky mouse" problem: mouse stops for extended periods of time

Yuri yuri at rawbw.com
Thu May 12 05:46:10 UTC 2016


On 05/08/2016 02:33, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
> msk(4) will try to use MSI unless not configured to do so the IRQ
> wouldn't be shared with other devices.  If msk(4) is using MSI you
> should see a high irq number greater than or equal to 256 in vmstat
> output.  Given that you're seeing issues with MSI, try disabling
> MSI for msk(4).  Add the following tunable to /boot/loader.conf and
> reboot.
>
> hw.msk.msi_disable="1"

For some reason hw.msk.msi_disable isn't found:
# sysctl hw.msk.msi_disable=1
sysctl: unknown oid 'hw.msk.msi_disable'
even though it is defined in sys/dev/msk/if_msk.c and if_msk module is 
loaded.

Yuri


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