From: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@kvack.org" <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: 2.5.41-mm2
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 21:32:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DA65441.7020505@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.44.0210100841280.4384-100000@localhost.localdomain
Ingo Molnar wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
>> Ingo's original per-cpu-pages patch was said to be mainly beneficial
>> for web-serving type things, but no specweb testing has been possible
>> for a week or two due to oopses in the timer code.
>
> i sent my latest timer patch to Dave Hansen but have not heard back since.
> I've attached the latest patch, this kernel also printks a bit more when
> it sees invalid timer usage.
>
> in any case, the oops Dave was seeing i believe was fixed by Linus (the
> PgUp fix), and it was in the keyboard code. If there's anything else still
> going on then the attached patch should either fix it or provide further
> clues.
Ingo,
I'm running the current Bitkeeper tree with your patch, with no
oopses in sight. The oops happens in seconds without the patch, but I
haven't seen anything in an hour of running Specweb. It looks pretty
good. Please feed that patch to Linus if you haven't already.
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Dave Hansen
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-11 4:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-10 5:40 2.5.41-mm2 Andrew Morton
2002-10-10 5:40 ` 2.5.41-mm2 Andrew Morton
2002-10-10 5:59 ` 2.5.41-mm2 David S. Miller
2002-10-10 5:59 ` 2.5.41-mm2 David S. Miller
2002-10-10 6:45 ` 2.5.41-mm2 Ingo Molnar
2002-10-10 6:45 ` 2.5.41-mm2 Ingo Molnar
2002-10-10 6:44 ` 2.5.41-mm2 Dave Hansen
2002-10-10 6:44 ` 2.5.41-mm2 Dave Hansen
2002-10-11 4:32 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2002-10-11 5:30 ` 2.5.41-mm2 Ingo Molnar
2002-10-10 8:18 ` 2.5.41-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
2002-10-10 8:18 ` 2.5.41-mm2 William Lee Irwin III
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