Add an item regarding if_de driver behavior. Mark as WIP, and owned by

jmg and myself.
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Robert Watson 2004-10-15 08:44:43 +00:00
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this is fixed is to re-assert the Giant lock over the stack when
i4b is compiled into the kernel; this has been committed to 6.x and
and 5.x. The Release Engineering team awaits word that this corrects
the problems experienced by the submitter.</d>
the problems experienced by the submitter.</td>
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<td>Reports of poor performance of the if_de driver (de ethernet
intrfaces)</td>
<td>&status.wip;</td>
<td>&a.rwatson;, &a.jmg;</td>
<td>There have been reports that if_de ethernet cds behave poorly when
running with debug.mpsafenet=1, even though the driver is marked to
run all portions with the Giant lock. This suggests a race condition
specific to this drive, which is currently being debugged.</td>
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