On Saturday 26 November 2005 12:03 am, Julian Elischer wrote: > So I haven't been paying too much attention to this thread and now > suddenly I find that > I may have a variant of this problem. > > I have been tasked with adding a 4 port intel (em) based card into a > Dell 2850 based system. > It is based on the intel E7525 chipset and running 4.11. > > I have noticed that this system has irq's in use from 16 down (Maybe in > -current it may use higher) > but that some interrupt counts seem to move together, as if they are > wired to gether. > > I also have the problem that the system seems to get completely wedged > sometimes > as it seems to get into the em driver interupt routine and never get out > again, > or if it does get out it gets called right back in again. > > Can someone who was following this tell me if this is the same problem? > > I can get into the kernel debugger and it usually shows the > amr interrupt handler, having been interrupted by the em driver, (and > that interrupted by > the keyboard interrupt handler for the KDB entry.) > > It seems that no matter how hard it tries or how often it is called the em > driver is unable to clear this interrupt. > > > Am I reading this correctly in that it seems to be the same problem as was > being discussed here? It could be. 4.x handles interrupt storms much more poorly (more prone to deadlock) than 5.x and later, and it still masks level-triggerred interrupts in the APIC while it waits for the handler to run. -- John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.orgReceived on Mon Nov 28 2005 - 20:37:24 UTC
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