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



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


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