twa breakage onAMD64with9.1.5.23wareversionand2005-01-1103:00:49 UTC RELENG_5 commit

[Vinod Kashyap]

> 
> can't wait to test..
> 
> I'm just about to revert to FreeBSD i386 this week-end as i can't put 
> up with the constant amd64 crashes anymore...
> 
> It's not just the twa driver ; the NFS server often start to 

Just FYI, the patch Scott's talking about will be in busdma and not twa.


> take 100% 
> of CPU time and various network utilities crashes once a week.
> 
> I didn't notice much speed increase when I moved from i386 to 
> amd64 so 
> it's not going to be too much of an issue to revert back (except 
> Subversion server: for some reasons it's much faster on amd64)
> 
> Jean-Yves
> 
> On 04/03/2005, at 7:50 AM, Scott Long wrote:
> 
> > Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> >> Well, it may work for you, but not for me.
> >> Still hangs exactly in the same spot.
> >> Jean-Yves
> >> On 21/01/2005, at 12:24 AM, Michael Meltzer wrote:
> >>>  looks like patch3 worked, good job! I had to turn off 
> TWA_DEBUG to 
> >>> get the boot going, the debug was starving the boot on a 
> 9600 baud 
> >>> terminal. I can increase the speed and caputer the output 
> on monday 
> >>> if it will help(it on the large side, bigger than the 10,000 line 
> >>> capture buffer in am using).  I incude 2 iozone reports, 
> the first 
> >>> one the new driver the second one the old driver, Is 
> thier a way to 
> >>> increase the "read ahead" in freebsd?? -mjm
> >>>
> >>>
> >> ---
> >
> > I have a patch that I'll be posting for review tonight that 
> hopefully 
> > will put all of this to rest.  Stay tuned, and harass me if 
> you don't 
> > see it by tomorrow.
> >
> > Scott
> >
> >
> ---
> Jean-Yves Avenard
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