From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269010AbUHaT4P (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:56:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269070AbUHaTwJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:52:09 -0400 Received: from viper.oldcity.dca.net ([216.158.38.4]:33748 "HELO viper.oldcity.dca.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S269072AbUHaTrT (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:47:19 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q5 From: Lee Revell To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Daniel Schmitt , "K.R. Foley" , Felipe Alfaro Solana , linux-kernel , Mark_H_Johnson@raytheon.com In-Reply-To: <20040831193734.GA29852@elte.hu> References: <1093727453.8611.71.camel@krustophenia.net> <20040828211334.GA32009@elte.hu> <1093727817.860.1.camel@krustophenia.net> <1093737080.1385.2.camel@krustophenia.net> <1093746912.1312.4.camel@krustophenia.net> <20040829054339.GA16673@elte.hu> <20040830090608.GA25443@elte.hu> <1093934448.5403.4.camel@krustophenia.net> <20040831070658.GA31117@elte.hu> <1093980065.1603.5.camel@krustophenia.net> <20040831193734.GA29852@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1093981634.1633.2.camel@krustophenia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 15:47:15 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 15:37, Ingo Molnar wrote: > i believe that the invalidations are excessive. It is quite likely that > no invalidation has to be done at all. Does your box still start up X > fine if you uncomment all those wbinvd() calls? > Commented out all calls to wbinvd(), seems to work fine. I even tried repeatedly killing the X server before it could finish starting, no problems at all. I guess the worst that could happen here would be display corruption, which would get fixed on the next refresh? Lee