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From: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@cyclades.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.14-rc1-git5] sched: disable preempt in idle tasks
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 16:04:04 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1130907843.3853.1.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43682878.3040800@yahoo.com.au>

Hi Nick.

On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 13:46, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Hi Shaohua,
> 
> Li, Shaohua wrote:
> 
> > 
> > What's the status of the patch? I didn't see it in base kernel.
> > We found another bug related with this issue. On UP system, if a CPU
> > enters 
> > 'mwait_idle', it never leaves it, as the 'mwait_idle' loop will never
> > end.
> > Disabling preempt fixes the bug. Should I submit a patch just disabling
> > preempt in 'mwait_idle' or wait for your patch?
> > 
> 
> The patch is in Andrew's tree, and it should get merged for 2.6.15.
> If you have verified that disabling preempt in mwait_idle fixes the
> bug, then you may like to send that to the 2.6.14.stable guys.

I sent an email a couple of weeks ago saying that it looked like it did
the trick for me - no problems in two weeks of testing. (I would have
easily seen it within a day or two prior to this).

Regards,

Nigel

> Thanks,
> Nick
-- 



  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-02  5:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-02  2:33 [PATCH 2.6.14-rc1-git5] sched: disable preempt in idle tasks Li, Shaohua
2005-11-02  2:46 ` Nick Piggin
2005-11-02  5:04   ` Nigel Cunningham [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-21 15:41 Nick Piggin
2005-09-21 21:43 ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-09-22  1:31 ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-22  3:25   ` Nick Piggin
2005-09-22  9:03     ` Andi Kleen
2005-09-25 23:24     ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-10-06 23:03     ` Nigel Cunningham

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