Re: [poll] hyperthreading_allowed, hlt_logical_cpus, mp_watchdog

2011-05-25 Thread Ronald Klop
On Tue, 24 May 2011 18:27:47 +0200, Josh Carroll wrote: Whatever you do, please leave at least some way (at least a tunable) to enable/disable HTT - some workloads are better with, and some without it, and some BIOSes are unreliable in enabling/disabling it :) I noticed that disabling HT

Re: [poll] hyperthreading_allowed, hlt_logical_cpus, mp_watchdog

2011-05-25 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Tue, 24 May 2011 16:21:08 +0300, Andriy Gapon a écrit : Hello, > I am planning on some changes in head and would like to see if people > use the following features: > - machdep.hyperthreading_allowed tunable and sysctl If I remember well, these tunables were introduced because the paper of

Re: RELENG_8: panic: wrong offset 4096 for sectorsize 2352

2011-05-25 Thread Joerg Wunsch
As Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: > > Anyway, it appears to be a software bug. Ah, OK, it's quite possible > > the bug has always been there, even in RELENG_7 ... I just never > > tested that one against INVARIANTS. > > I committed the fix in the r83, can you test it? Works fine! -- cheers, J"or

Re: modem support MT9234ZPX-PCIE-NV

2011-05-25 Thread John Baldwin
On Saturday, May 21, 2011 5:20:37 am Willy Offermans wrote: > Dear FreeBSD friends, > > I need support with a MultiTech modem, MT9234ZPX-PCIE-NV > (http://www.multitech.com/en_US/PRODUCTS/Families/MultiModemZPX/) > > The modem is recognised during the boot event: > > > pci6: at device 0.0 (no

Re: modem support MT9234ZPX-PCIE-NV

2011-05-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 25/05/2011, at 16:04, Willy Offermans wrote: > I'm using FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p2. I have enclosed the dmesg.boot file. > > puc was already incorporated into the kernel: > > kosmos# kldload -v puc > kldload: can't load puc: File exists > > So I assume puc has already been loaded. You could tr

Re: modem support MT9234ZPX-PCIE-NV

2011-05-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 25/05/2011, at 16:10, Willy Offermans wrote: > According to the manufacturer > (http://www.multitech.com/en_US/PRODUCTS/Families/MultiModemZPX/) > it is not a soft modem, but a ``hardware'' modem. It says: Built-in > processor does the work, so your computer doesn't have to. I do not know if >

Re: modem support MT9234ZPX-PCIE-NV

2011-05-25 Thread Willy Offermans
Dear Daniel and FreeBSD friends, On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 10:48:03AM +0200, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 22/05/2011, at 9:16, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> However, as the boot process already mentions, there is no driver attached > >> and I cannot get the modem to appear as an accessible and funct

Re: modem support MT9234ZPX-PCIE-NV

2011-05-25 Thread Willy Offermans
Hello Jeremy and FreeBSD friends, On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 12:16:42AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 11:20:37AM +0200, Willy Offermans wrote: > > Dear FreeBSD friends, > > > > I need support with a MultiTech modem, MT9234ZPX-PCIE-NV > > (http://www.multitech.com/en_US/PROD

Re: RELENG_8: panic: wrong offset 4096 for sectorsize 2352

2011-05-25 Thread Joerg Wunsch
As Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: > > Anyway, it appears to be a software bug. Ah, OK, it's quite possible > > the bug has always been there, even in RELENG_7 ... I just never > > tested that one against INVARIANTS. > > I committed the fix in the r83, can you test it? Спасибо, I'll test it tonigh

Re: RELENG_8: panic: wrong offset 4096 for sectorsize 2352

2011-05-25 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
On 25.05.2011 15:15, Joerg Wunsch wrote: >> Or maybe you added options INVARIANTS >> to your kernel? > > I did (for other rasons, which you can read about in the freebsd-scsi > list). > > Anyway, it appears to be a software bug. Ah, OK, it's quite possible > the bug has always been there, even i

Re: RELENG_8: panic: wrong offset 4096 for sectorsize 2352

2011-05-25 Thread Joerg Wunsch
As Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: > Are you sure that it is RELENG_8? Yes, I am. > Or maybe you added options INVARIANTS > to your kernel? I did (for other rasons, which you can read about in the freebsd-scsi list). Anyway, it appears to be a software bug. Ah, OK, it's quite possible the bug has al

Re: RELENG_8: panic: wrong offset 4096 for sectorsize 2352

2011-05-25 Thread Andrey V. Elsukov
On 25.05.2011 13:36, Joerg Wunsch wrote: > Well, the workaround is easy (just return -1 from gv_taste() when > noticing the offset is not on a sector boundary - this can never be a > valid gvinum device anyway), but I'm curious about why this panic now > happens in RELENG_8 when it didn't before.

Re: RELENG_8: panic: wrong offset 4096 for sectorsize 2352

2011-05-25 Thread Joerg Wunsch
As Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Just an informational note about inducing a panic: I tend to, once at > the db> prompt, do "bt" then immediately "call doadump". That induces > memory being written to swap, then do "reboot". OK, reproduced the panic (which was easy ;), and did it that way. Now, the s