Re: Are we going too fast?

PinkFreud
2001-08-15T00:07:44Z

On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Alan Cox wrote:

> Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 21:47:03 +0100 (BST)
> From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> To: Anders Larsen <anders@alarsen.net>
> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, PinkFreud <pf-kernel1@mirkwood.net>,
> linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: Are we going too fast?
>
> > Mike didn't mention any details of the hardware where he's experiencing this
> > bug, but is it possibly a multiprocessor machine?
> > Since I only have UP's to test on, the qnxfs might have SMP issues.
> >
> > Could someone please glance through the code in fs/qnx4 to check if there
> > are any obvious problems?
>
> If I get time tomorrow I'll test the qnxfs code on a dual PPro

Woah, good point. While the system I'm trying this on is only a single
cpu machine (AMD K6), I noticed (after I compiled, alas) that the kernel
was compiled with the SMP option enabled - whoops. I meant to change that
back to UP, but haven't done so as of yet.

Linux boromir 2.4.8 #1 SMP Sun Aug 12 14:08:25 EDT 2001 i586 unknown

processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 5
model : 6
model name : AMD-K6tm w/ multimedia extensions
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 199.684
cache size : 64 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 mmx
bogomips : 398.13

Mike Edwards

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