On 24. May 2012, at 13:47 , Mark Felder wrote:

> On Wed, 23 May 2012 17:30:40 -0500, Adrian Chadd <adr...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> can you please, -please- file a PR? And place all of the above
>> information in it so we don't lose it?
>> 
> 
> I'd be glad to post a PR and assist in helping to get it permanently fixed. I 
> certainly don't want this data to get lost and honestly our business uses 
> FreeBSD on VMWare so much that we really need a permanent fix as much as 
> anyone else :-)
> 
> The reason I've hesitated to post a PR so far is that I didn't have any truly 
> useful or concrete evidence of where the problem lies. After Dane Foster 
> contacted me and told me he could recreate the crash on demand with his 
> workload it was easier to narrow things down. The suggestion that it was an 
> interrupts issue (by possibly Bjoern Zeeb?) 

Just for the public archives.  Interrupts wasn't me.   I might have mentioned 
disabling cdrom and fdc as good as possible but everything else I cannot 
remember...


> and Dane's discovery that his crashes ceased when em0 and mpt0 share an IRQ, 
> but em0 is completely unused was starting to prove there is some strong 
> evidence here in favor of the interrupts issue.
> 
> Dane, what's the status on your end? Has your fix still been successful? Is 
> it also stable if you simply set hint.mpt.0.msi_enable="1" ?

-- 
Bjoern A. Zeeb                                 You have to have visions!
   It does not matter how good you are. It matters what good you do!

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