[Lse-tech] Re: [PATCH 2/4] 2.6.1-mm2: sched-domain
Nick Piggin
piggin at cyberone.com.au
Sun Feb 1 21:26:21 EST 2004
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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