How to make system Sync

I had a couple of system out of sync problems. (1) PCI sync problem: ATM adapter updates a buffer return pointer and generates intr, but when driver pulls out the information that updated by adapter, some memory in the last piece of the pool is garbage. e.g. head

Re: How to make system Sync

Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] stated: I had a couple of system out of sync problems. (1) PCI sync problem: ATM adapter updates a buffer return pointer and generates intr, but when driver pulls out the information that updated by adapter, some memory in the

kernel SMP thread

Jordan said that the kernel SMP thread is ready in CURRENT FreeBSD, but I could not find any document for the SMP kthread. By looking at the kern/kern_kthread.c code, it does not look like a SMP thread, and does not even have mutex functions in there. Does any one happen to know where is the

Re: kernel SMP thread

Jordan said that the kernel SMP thread is ready in CURRENT FreeBSD, but I could not find any document for the SMP kthread. Huh? I never said any such thing. You must have misinterpreted something else I said. I asked a question "Is FreeBSD working on SMP thread?" at both USENIX and

Re: kernel SMP thread

I asked a question "Is FreeBSD working on SMP thread?" at both USENIX and FreeBSDcon last year, you answered that it is already in the kernel, but there is no API for userland. Maybe we misunderstund each other :-( I answered that we had *kernel* threads but that there was no native API

Can NMI drop a hanging FreeBSD kernel into DDB?

Hi, I am currently experimenting kernel hanging problem even through I have compiled the kernel with DDB enabled. How can I make a hanging kernel into DDB? Will grounding the NMI do it? Thanks for any suggestions, -Jin To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with