From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>, Martin Bligh <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Subject: Re: 2.5.65-preempt booting on 32way NUMAQ
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 04:23:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030406112340.GM993@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.50.0304060625130.2268-100000@montezuma.mastecende.com>
On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 06:48:33AM -0400, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> Robert i suppose you can add another notch on your erm.. bedpost(?)
> and congratulations to all the kernel developers! It survived some
> local networking stress tests, but there is more fun stuff like tty
> layer to completely obliterate ;)
Wow!
This has had a hard time historically. I'm really glad NUMA-Q's are now
immune (in the sense of correctness) to this config; previously it was
believed that preemption points in printk(linux_banner) would take out
the machine early in boot if preemption was enabled.
Congratulations rml!
If you're booting without issues on these things, you are a _very_ long
way toward being race-free. This is incredibly good news, both for the
preemption support, and for the general stability of the i386 bootstrap.
All that's really left is driver and non-i386 arch coverage if I'm right.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-06 11:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-06 10:48 2.5.65-preempt booting on 32way NUMAQ Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-04-06 11:23 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2003-04-06 11:25 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-04-06 18:30 ` Robert Love
2003-04-06 21:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-06 21:50 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-04-06 22:10 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-04-06 22:03 ` Robert Love
2003-04-06 22:07 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-04-06 23:19 ` Robert Love
2003-04-06 18:28 ` Robert Love
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2003-04-06 19:33 Chuck Ebbert
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