Re: bnx driver in 5.99.7 panics under xen 3.3.1

[Mike Bowie <mbowie%buzmo.com@localhost>]

Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 07:59:36AM -0800, Mike Bowie wrote:
>>> What does 'systat vm' show ? This would probably show you which interrupt
>>> is generating the load.
>>> You can also try entering the debugger with +++++
>>> and type 'show events' from the db> prompt.
>>>
>> "ioapic0 pin 11" is catching about 114000 interrupts every two or three
>> seconds.
>>
>> # dmesg | grep ioapic0
>> [...]
>> svwsata0: using ioapic0 pin 11, event channel 3 for native-PCI interrupt
>> ohci0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 11, event channel 3
>> ohci1: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 11, event channel 3
>> ehci0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 11, event channel 3
> 
> You could try disabling ehci (add -c to the netbsd boot command line,
> and 'disable ehci'). I guess the keyboard is at ohci so disabling
> ohci will be problematic. If you're not using USB devices at all disable
> ohci too.
> I guess your drives are on the svwsata0 ? If not you can try disabling
> it as well.
> 

Magnifique!  Booting with ohci disabled is so far giving a usable
result.  Thankfully this system is a 100% serial terminal, so USB is of
no value to me anyway.

I'm going to build a fresh kernel, tune the memory a bit in boot.cfg and
run some stress tests in a couple of domU's.

My sincerest thanks!

Mike.