Re: kern/41679 (Lots of re0: watchdog timeout using qemu/kvm)

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/41679; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: kern/41679 (Lots of re0: watchdog timeout using qemu/kvm)
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 04:41:28 +0000

 On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 08:40:04AM +0000, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
  >  > Synopsis: Lots of re0: watchdog timeout using qemu/kvm
  >  
  >  It's QEMU's problem ("interrupt moderation timer is disabled by default")
  >  
http://www.valinux.co.jp/technologylibrary/document/virtualization/kvm_netbsd0001/#n04
  >  and I'm not sure if it's worth to put workaround for qemu quirk
  >  in re(4) driver. (because wm(4) on qemu works)
 
 If people keep tripping on it, if nothing else it makes us look bad.
 Is there a way to get qemu installs to default to wm(4)?
 
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 David A. Holland
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