Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

[Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>]

Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> Andrew Morton wrote:
>> Temporarily at
>>
>>   http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/
>>
>> Will appear later at
>>
>>   ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc4/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/
>>
>>
>>
> 
> [All of the below is from the pre hot-fix runs.  The very few results
> which are in for the hot-fix runs seem worse if anything.  :(  All
> results should be out on TKO.]
> 
>> - Restored the RSDL CPU scheduler (a new version thereof)
> 
> Unsure if the above is the culprit but there seems to be a smattering of
> BUG's in kernbench from the schedular on several systems, and panics
> which do not fully dump out.
> 
> elm3b239 is about 2/4 kernbench being the test in progress when we
> blammo in both failed tests, elm3b234 doesn't boot at all.

Well I have one result through for backing RSDL out on elm3b239 and that
does indeed seem to give us a successful boot and test.  peterz has
pointed me to an incremental patch from Con which I'll push through
testing and see if that sorts it out.

-apw