NET.ISR and CPU utilization performance w/ HP DL 585 using FreeBSD 7.1 Beta2

2008-11-15 Thread Won De Erick
Hello, I tested HP DL 585 (16 CPUs, w/ built-in Broadcom NICs) running FreeBSD 7.1 Beta2 under heavy network traffic (TCP). SCENARIO A : Bombarded w/ TCP traffic: When net.isr.direct=1, PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 52 root1 -68- 0

Re: NET.ISR and CPU utilization performance w/ HP DL 585 using FreeBSD 7.1 Beta2

2008-11-16 Thread Won De Erick
> - Original Message > From: Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Won De Erick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2008 10:16:31 PM > Subject: Re: NET.ISR and CPU utilization

Re: NET.ISR and CPU utilization performance w/ HP DL 585 using FreeBSD 7.1 Beta2

2008-11-17 Thread Won De Erick
> - Original Message > From: Won De Erick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 7:18:46 PM > Subject: Re: NET.ISR and CPU utilization performance

Re: NET.ISR and CPU utilization performance w/ HP DL 585 using FreeBSD 7.1 Beta2

2008-11-17 Thread Won De Erick
> - Original Message > From: Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 5:21:04 AM > Subject: Re: NET.ISR and CPU utilization performance w/ HP DL 585 using > FreeBSD 7.1 Beta2 > > Won De Eric

Watchdog for Boser (HS-7001)

2008-12-01 Thread Won De Erick
Hello, I was trying the assembly language program that is specified in the following document (p24) to set, reset the built-in watchdog timer for the Boser Box. http://www.boser.com.tw/manual/HS-7001v1.1.pdf I then installed nasm in FreeBSD 6.2, and added the following lines at the beginning.

Re: Watchdog for Boser (HS-7001)

2008-12-01 Thread Won De Erick
> - Original Message > From: Rink Springer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 09:38:51AM +0100, Christoph Mallon wrote: > > Userland is not allowed to write to ports. That's the bus error you see. > > Also without a call to the exit syscall at the end, it will segfault. >

Re: Watchdog for Boser (HS-7001)

2008-12-01 Thread Won De Erick
>- Original Message >From: Christoph Mallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Won De Erick schrieb: >>> - Original Message >> >>> From: Rink Springer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >>> >> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 09:38:5

Re: Watchdog for Boser (HS-7001)

2008-12-01 Thread Won De Erick
>From: Won De Erick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>From: Christoph Mallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > >Won De Erick schrieb: >>>> - Original Message >>> >>>> From: Rink Springer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> >>&

Re: Watchdog for Boser (HS-7001)

2008-12-01 Thread Won De Erick
> - Original Message > From: Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Christoph Mallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > You're probably better of writing this in C. maybe i get this as an option. > > He's probably better off writing a watchdog(4) driver for the Boser (or > getting someon

Re: Watchdog for Boser (HS-7001)

2008-12-10 Thread Won De Erick
Christoph Mallon wrote: > > Won De Erick schrieb: >>> - Original Message >> >>> From: Rink Springer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> >>> >> On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 09:38:51AM +0100, Christoph Mallon wrote: >>>> Userland is

Switching to SMM with FreeBSD 6.2 onwards

2009-03-27 Thread Won De Erick
Hi All, I'm not quite familiar with FreeBSD, but I want to do the following in 6.2/7.1. /* Raise IOPL to 3 to open all I/O ports */ /* something like 'i386_iopl(3)' */ ... /* Open SMRAM access */ outl(unsigned int port, unsigned long int data); Also, I appreciate comments on the fo

Re: Switching to SMM with FreeBSD 6.2 onwards

2009-03-27 Thread Won De Erick
--- On Fri, 3/27/09, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 27/03/2009 12:35 Ivan Voras said > the following: > > Takanori Watanabe wrote: > >> In message <17314.10813...@web45811.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>, > Won De Erick wrote: > >>> Hi All, > >>> > >&g

Re: Switching to SMM with FreeBSD 6.2 onwards

2009-03-27 Thread Won De Erick
--- On Fri, 3/27/09, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 27/03/2009 15:47 Won De Erick said > the following: > > --- On Fri, 3/27/09, Andriy Gapon > wrote: > >> on 27/03/2009 12:35 Ivan Voras said the > following: > >>> One thing that comes to my mind is thi

Re: watchdog: hw+sw?

2009-04-02 Thread Won De Erick
--- On Thu, 4/2/09, Andriy Gapon wrote: > > I have some vague thoughts on using SW_WATCHDOG and a > hardware watchdog together. > I think this could be useful but I am not sure how to > implement this. > The idea is this: timeout for SW_WATCHDOG is smaller than > timeout for hw wd; when > some f