Re: Adjust USB kthread priorities

2011-01-13 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
On Wednesday 12 January 2011 23:03:37 John Baldwin wrote: Currently the USB kthreads created for each USB bus use hardware interrupt priorities. I think this is wrong and that they should use software interrupt priorities instead. This patch would do that: ---

lock contention problem?

2011-01-13 Thread dieterbsd
I suspect that I have a problem with lock/mutex contention. Reading from a USB disk appears to lock out the firewire driver for too long, causing data transfer (writing to firewire bus) to fail with EAGAIN. Once it fails it does not recover. kernel: fwohci1: IT DMA underrun (0x40308011) (stat

Re: lock contention problem?

2011-01-13 Thread Hans Petter Selasky
On Thursday 13 January 2011 21:28:15 dieter...@engineer.com wrote: I suspect that I have a problem with lock/mutex contention. Reading from a USB disk appears to lock out the firewire driver for too long, causing data transfer (writing to firewire bus) to fail with EAGAIN. Once it fails it