Re: Booting 2.6.30-rc2-git7 very slow

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Tuesday 21 April 2009, Martin Knoblauch wrote:
> 
> Hi, [please CC me on replies, as I am not subscribed]
> 
>  booting  2.6.30-rc2-git7 on a HP/DL380G3 (x86_64, RHEL4.3, 64 bit userspace) is much slower that it used to be. It seems I run into timeouts when [trying to] load intel and tg3 microcodes:
> 
> [   14.478892] platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/0f-04-0a
> [   74.476741] platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/0f-04-0a
> [  134.476638] platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/0f-04-0a
> [  194.476637] platform microcode: firmware: requesting intel-ucode/0f-04-0a
> [  254.476493] Microcode Update Driver: v2.00 <tigran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Peter Oruba
> [  254.718489] Microcode Update Driver: v2.00 removed.
> 
>  So, we see 60 seconds for eaoch of the CPUs
> 
> [  255.273426] tg3 0000:03:01.0: PME# disabled
> [  257.833769] tg3: eth0: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex.
> [  257.833775] tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
> [  269.643973] tg3 0000:03:01.1: firmware: requesting tigon/tg3_tso.bin
> [  329.640456] eth1: Failed to load firmware "tigon/tg3_tso.bin"
> [  329.640463] eth1: TSO capability disabled.
> [  329.640487] tg3 0000:03:01.1: PME# disabled
> [  333.081753] tg3: eth1: Link is up at 1000 Mbps, full duplex.
> [  333.081759] tg3: eth1: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
> 
>  We see 60 seconds for eth1, complaining about a failed firmware load.
> /lib/firmware/tigon/tg3_tso.bin does exist and is from the current
> build.

Do I assume correctly that 2.6.29 did not have this problem?

Rafael
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