Re: Disabling an arbitrary device

From: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 14:18:29 -0400
Hi,

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I will be bringing up an old thread there, but it would seem the
> situation did not evolve in the past 9 years. I have a machine running
> 7.1 whose UHCI controller is generating some interrupt storm:
>
> # vmstat -i
> interrupt                          total       rate
> irq4: sio0                          1328          2
> irq19: uhci1+                   63514509      96380
> [...]
>
> generating useless load on one CPU:
>
> # top -SH
> last pid:  5223;  load averages:  0.00,  0.00,  0.00    up 0+00:17:21  13:10:35
> 117 processes: 14 running, 79 sleeping, 24 waiting
> CPU:  0.2% user,  0.0% nice,  0.2% system,  6.6% interrupt, 93.0% idle
> Mem: 33M Active, 9348K Inact, 67M Wired, 400K Cache, 29M Buf, 2892M Free
> [...]
>   57 root          -64    -     0K     8K CPU0   0  11:59 86.57% irq19: uhci1+
>
> I thought I could use an hint to forbid uhci(4) attachment, ala:
>
> hint.uhci.0.disabled="1"
> hint.uhci.1.disabled="1"
>
> in /boot/loader.conf. However, it would seem that what should be
> usable with any arbitrary devices, ie. be an integral part of
> device(9), has to be hardcoded in every driver, sad.
>
as for the usual "if you're not happy, please provide a patch":

https://github.com/lacombar/freebsd/commit/30786d09b0cb441890cdc749ee5243238e81d2d8

regards,
 - Arnaud

>  - Arnaud
>
> ps: the original thread I found is from September 2004:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-September/058717.html
Received on Fri Apr 20 2012 - 16:18:30 UTC

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