From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.8: preemption + SMP broken ?
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 00:34:03 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020418003403.B780@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020417232253.A629@in.ibm.com> <1019067957.1669.46.camel@phantasy>
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 02:25:57PM -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 13:52, Dipankar Sarma wrote:
> > Has anyone tried out preemption with SMP ?
>
> Sure, all my testing is on SMP. The problem manifested itself in
> 2.5.8-pre when some changes where made to the migration code. The race
> is in the migration code - I am not sure it is preempts fault, per se,
> but the attached patch should fix it. It is pending with Linus for the
> next release.
It worked! Thanks a lot, Robert.
Thanks
--
Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> http://lse.sourceforge.net
Linux Technology Center, IBM Software Lab, Bangalore, India.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-17 19:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-17 17:52 2.5.8: preemption + SMP broken ? Dipankar Sarma
2002-04-17 18:25 ` Robert Love
2002-04-17 19:04 ` Dipankar Sarma [this message]
2002-04-21 18:57 ` Pavel Machek
2002-04-22 18:16 ` Robert Love
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