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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Thomas Lenherr <thomas@lenherr.name>
Cc: linux-smp@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problems with SMP
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:13:18 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41810C8E.3010708@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4180FC04.4010800@lenherr.name>

Thomas Lenherr wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm using an Asus PC-DL and everything works fine, except I'm 
> experiencing troubles when copying files via a network fs (nfs and smb). 
> Because of that I wrote to the linux-fsdevel-list and to the lkml.
> A exact description of the symptons may be read here:
> http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3608
> 
> My system had 2 P4 with HT activated, but a few days ago I deactivated 
> HT and instantly I experienced much less troubles (~2/9 files corrupted 
> via nfs instead of ~7/9). After this I compiled a kernel without 
> smp-support and the problem was gone. Got no more any corrupted files!
> It's a bit weird that I got only troubles with network filesystems, but 
> that's the way it is ...
> Please read the description given in the bug-report link given above for 
> further informations, but, as I said, when I posted this bug I hadn't 
> realized yet it got something to do with smp...
> 
> I'd be very pleased if somebody could help me so that I could reactivate 
> my second processor :)

You probably don't want to go thru the corruption again,
but can you tell us if this happens with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y or n?
There have been a few problems recently with PREEMPT not being
used safely.  If it happens with PREEMPT=y, can you test it
with PREEMPT=n please.

-- 
~Randy

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-28 15:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-28 14:02 Problems with SMP Thomas Lenherr
2004-10-28 15:13 ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2004-10-28 18:23   ` Thomas Lenherr

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