Re: wm(4) issues with 4.99.48

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 03:05:04PM -0500, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:55:52PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:54:04PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > on a Xen system I'm now seeing these messages:
> > > wm0: could not acquire EEPROM GNT
> > > 
> > > in console. This is with a recent 4.99.48 kernel; I didn't see these
> > > with the previous (4.99.42) kernel. Anyone else see this ? Any idea ?
> 
> This is the same device where Steve Bellovin reported problems after I
> changed the interrupt mitigation timer settings to conform to Intel's
> application note.  You could try reverting that change, but if that
> does in fact fix your problem, we really need to figure out why.

I did revert the change, and a 4.99.48 kernel has run for several hours
without the message showing up.

> 
> I do not have a suitable device to test this on -- can we work together
> to try to get to the bottom of the problem?

Sure. Anything you want me to try ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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