dmesg and GIANT-LOCK

2007-03-13 Thread James Long
With regard to the recent thread about looking for GIANT-LOCKs in dmesg, why would one system say: ns : 00:56:29 /home/james uname -v ;dmesg | grep fxp FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Tue Feb 20 15:47:09 PST 2007 fxp0: Intel 82559 Pro/100 Ethernet port 0x2400-0x243f mem

Re: dmesg and GIANT-LOCK

2007-03-13 Thread Ivan Voras
James Long wrote: Is it just the difference in chipset/controller type that requires the fxp driver to use GIANT on the second machine, but not the first? I also note that on the first machine, irq 10 is solely assigned to fxp0. On t30, irq 11 is shared with a number of other devices.

Re: dmesg and GIANT-LOCK

2007-03-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 01:06:12AM -0700, James Long wrote: With regard to the recent thread about looking for GIANT-LOCKs in dmesg, why would one system say: ns : 00:56:29 /home/james uname -v ;dmesg | grep fxp FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Tue Feb 20 15:47:09 PST 2007 fxp0: Intel 82559 Pro/100

Re: dmesg and GIANT-LOCK

2007-03-13 Thread James Long
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 01:50:34PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 01:06:12AM -0700, James Long wrote: With regard to the recent thread about looking for GIANT-LOCKs in dmesg, why would one system say: ns : 00:56:29 /home/james uname -v ;dmesg | grep fxp FreeBSD

Re: dmesg and GIANT-LOCK

2007-03-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 12:12:26PM -0700, James Long wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 01:50:34PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 01:06:12AM -0700, James Long wrote: With regard to the recent thread about looking for GIANT-LOCKs in dmesg, why would one system say: