From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:27:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:26:59 -0400 Received: from maynard.mail.mindspring.net ([207.69.200.243]:42245 "EHLO maynard.mail.mindspring.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:26:48 -0400 Subject: Re: Feedback on preemptible kernel patch From: Robert Love To: Arjan Filius Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Evolution/0.13.99+cvs.2001.09.12.07.08 (Preview Release) Date: 13 Sep 2001 13:27:06 -0400 Message-Id: <1000402027.23162.45.camel@phantasy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2001-09-10 at 17:29, Arjan Filius wrote: > Yes I am using reiserfs (for "ages"). better said, reiser on LVM. > > Small discription of my system and used setup: > scsi-disk,scsi-cdrom,ide-disk,ide-scsi,ext2,reiser, iptables, ipv6, > acenic-Gbit-ethernet, ramdisk, highmem (1.5GB-ram), Athlon 1.1GHz, Asus > a7v MB (via). Hi Arjan, first, highmem is fixed and the original patch you have from me is good. second, Daniel Phillips gave me some feedback into how to figure out the VM error. I am working on it, although just the VM potential -- ReiserFS may be another problem. third, you may be experiencing problems with a kernel optimized for Athlon. this may or may not be related to the current issues with an Athlon-optimized kernel. Basically, functions in arch/i386/lib/mmx.c seem to need some locking to prevent preemption. I have a basic patch and we are working on a final one. -- Robert M. Love rml at ufl.edu rml at tech9.net