Re: PR/42455 CVS commit: pkgsrc/sysutils/xentools41

[Christoph Egger <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/42455; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Christoph Egger <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>, 
kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost, 
 gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: PR/42455 CVS commit: pkgsrc/sysutils/xentools41
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:56:38 +0100

 On 26.01.12 17:25, David Holland wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR kern/42455; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: PR/42455 CVS commit: pkgsrc/sysutils/xentools41
 > Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:21:03 +0000
 > 
 >  On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 11:20:04AM +0000, Christoph Egger wrote:
 >   >  Apply patch 79d1d3311319f3390f540f547becaba9d957f84c
 >   >  from qemu upstream:
 >   >  
 >   >  Fill in word 64 of IDENTIFY data to indicate support for PIO modes 3 
 > and 4.
 >   >  This allows NetBSD guests to use UltraDMA modes instead of just PIO 
 > mode 0.
 >   >  
 >   >  With this patch I can no longer reproduce PR 42455.
 >   >  Bump package revision.
 >  
 >  (1) does the main qemu package need this patch?
 
 No, it is already in that version.
 
 >  (2) this seems unlikely to have fixed the real problem with nfs; do we
 >  have any idea what it was?
 
 No. However, over a long time of observation every network
 improvement that reduced the amount of used kernel memory seemed to have
 helped...
 
 Christoph