From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt R Hall Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:41:29 +0000 Subject: Re: Ultra 2 Enterprise: All 2.6.xx SMP kernels hardlock Message-Id: <703d4eaa04092102416077e882@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: References: <703d4eaa04092018404389859@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <703d4eaa04092018404389859@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org I specifically tested _every single_ kernel version since 2.6.0. It took me an excruciating period of several weeks to cycle through this number of dot releases. The stable, working uniprocessor kernel is 2.6.9-rc2. 2.6.9-rc2 specifically failed in SMP mode, but, it worked in 2.4.xx. I would not mind that only 2.4.xx works, but I am making a public acccess UNIX server so I want a clear upgrade path, and the newer better packet matching support so I can do some sophisticated egress filtering to prevent abuse. Also, I seek a dependable upgrade path into the future, which is something 2.4.xx cannot offer for the long term. On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 23:34:10 -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 18:40:39 -0700 > Matt R Hall wrote: > > > I filed a report about this in kernel.org's bugzilla and it has not > > received any comments. > > Because the sparc64 kernel maintainer, me, doesn't look at > kernel.org's bugzilla ever. :-) > > Can you make sure 2.6.9-rc2 has the same problem? > > I don't have any of my SBUS SMP systems active in my array > of machines lately which is why stability on them has fallen > on the way side, they're just too damn slow to work with :( >