From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: PREEMPT on PPC From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Michel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?D=E4nzer?= Cc: linuxppc-dev list , "debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org" In-Reply-To: <1080524303.2441.108.camel@thor.asgaard.local> References: <1080197240.1210.2.camel@gaston> <1080201697.1217.3.camel@gaston> <1080399924.2514.14.camel@thor.asgaard.local> <1080523601.1209.46.camel@gaston> <1080524303.2441.108.camel@thor.asgaard.local> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1080525344.1209.53.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 11:55:45 +1000 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: > Note that I'm not sure how tightly the problems are tied to swap; after > they start, they seem to persist even when swap is no longer used. It's > just the best criterion I've been able to identify so far. Weird. I just can't reproduce any of your problems, neither on the tipb with highmem & lots of RAM, or on the wallstreet with no highmem and little RAM (thus swap)... I've been running with preempt for a few days now without trouble. What else are you using ? I suspect something like MOL may have troubles with preempt for example... Ben. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/