On 2010/09/23 23:00, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2010/09/23 15:13, Marco Pfatschbacher wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 06:11:58PM +0200, Mike Belopuhov wrote: > > > there's nothing special about this driver. as it does usual iic_exec's, > > > i'm not sure what can be actually fixed there. so if nobody has any > > > idea what could be done about it, you have my okay to disable it > > > completely. > > > > It's not the drivers fault, it seems that polling on piixpm(4) > > causes hangs on ServerWorks HT-1000 chips. > > > > This is what we are running: > > Wow. I didn't think I had that much of a problem with HT-1000 + lm(4), > certainly nowhere near as noticable as the people with wbng, but this > makes quite a difference. Think I'll be disabling piixpm on a few > machines in the fairly near future then...
Or of course maybe the livelocks counter is no longer kept so it's hard to say what effect this has on my systems right now ;-)
