[Lse-tech] Re: [PATCH 2/4] 2.6.1-mm2: sched-domain

[Nick Piggin]

Nick Piggin wrote:

>
>
> Rick Lindsley wrote:
>
>>    Do you have the SMT scheduler enabled? Maybe its a bug with SMT
>> off or
>>    maybe my box wasnt stable and I didnt notice :)
>>
>> Good point --  I've been running standard regression tests against it
>> on x86 and seen nothing like this.  But I haven't enabled SMT.  I just
>> finished going through the code with Martin and another engineer last
>> week and am summarizing some thoughts, but there was no major fallovers
>> like this.
>>
>>
>
> SMT should be i386 only at this stage so it rules that out.
>
> x86 is pretty stable, that I am sure of. I have run it on quite
> a lot of boxes, SMP P4, NUMAQ, SMP P3s, UP, etc plus countless
> people testing -mm.
>
> It wouldn't surprise me if there is a problem with another
> architecture... but then again as you say Anton is running it
> OK so I dunno. Maybe it is a compiler bug?
>
>

Andrew, Anton, are you using CONFIG_PREEMPT?


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