> Ok, an update on the dirty buffers on reboot:
> 
> If you use the reboot command, you will get dirty buffers.  If you use
> 'shutdown -r now' instead, you won't get dirty buffers.  Thus, as a workaround
> for now, use the shutdown command to reboot your box until we can track this
> down.

I suggest using some method to allow interrupt threads to run during
the shutdown.  Perhaps the current process priority should be elevated
so it is guaranteed to be scheduled after the last interrupt thread
instead of some unrelated process.

Index: kern_shutdown.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/kern/kern_shutdown.c,v
retrieving revision 1.80
diff -u -r1.80 kern_shutdown.c
--- kern_shutdown.c     2000/09/07 01:32:51     1.80
+++ kern_shutdown.c     2000/09/09 01:42:20
@@ -220,6 +220,7 @@
        if (!cold && (howto & RB_NOSYNC) == 0 && waittime < 0) {
                register struct buf *bp;
                int iter, nbusy;
+               int subiter;
 
                waittime = 0;
                printf("\nsyncing disks... ");
@@ -247,7 +248,18 @@
                                break;
                        printf("%d ", nbusy);
                        sync(&proc0, NULL);
-                       DELAY(50000 * iter);
+                       
+                       if (curproc != NULL) {
+                         for (subiter = 0; subiter < 50 * iter; subiter++) {
+                           mtx_enter(&sched_lock, MTX_SPIN);
+                           setrunqueue(curproc);
+                           mi_switch(); /* Allow interrupt threads to run */
+                           mtx_exit(&sched_lock, MTX_SPIN);
+                           DELAY(1000);
+                         }
+                       } else
+                         DELAY(50000 * iter);
+                         
                }
                printf("\n");
                /*

- Tor Egge


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