From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
Ravikiran G Thirumalai <kiran@in.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
lse <lse-tech@lists.sourceforge.net>,
riel@conectiva.com.br, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Scalable statistics counters using kmalloc_percpu
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 12:53:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020726195304.GY2907@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1027713012.2443.49.camel@sinai>
On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 11:46:34AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> Oh dear. Most people only have two CPUs.
>>> Rusty, can we *please* fix this? Really soon?
On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 12:46, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> I'll post the panic triggered by lowering NR_CPUS shortly. There's
>> an ugly showstopping i386 arch code issue here.
On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 12:50:12PM -0700, Robert Love wrote:
> In current 2.5? I thought Andrew and I fixed all those issues and
> pushed them to Linus...
> The `configurable NR_CPUS' patch works fine for me. I always boot with
> NR_CPUS=2.
Sorry I didn't get a chance to test in time, these things are slow to
boot and my testing bandwidth is limited. Please hold off until the
issue is resolved. You *will* prevent me from booting. IO-APIC APIC ID
reassignment panics. I'll follow up after this when the thing comes up
into the kernel exhibiting the problem.
Cheers,
Bill
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-26 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-26 15:10 [RFC] Scalable statistics counters using kmalloc_percpu Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2002-07-26 15:27 ` Rik van Riel
2002-07-26 15:54 ` [Lse-tech] " Dipankar Sarma
2002-07-29 14:18 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2002-07-26 18:46 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-26 19:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-26 19:50 ` Robert Love
2002-07-26 19:53 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2002-07-26 20:15 ` [Lse-tech] " William Lee Irwin III
2002-07-26 20:22 ` Robert Love
2002-07-27 12:00 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-07-27 12:21 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-07-28 21:33 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-07-29 10:31 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2002-07-29 14:54 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-07-27 1:56 ` Rusty Russell
2002-07-27 4:45 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-27 4:59 ` Rusty Russell
2002-07-27 6:16 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-29 10:57 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
2002-07-29 18:23 ` Andrew Morton
2002-07-29 18:50 ` [Lse-tech] " Dipankar Sarma
2002-07-30 11:25 ` Ravikiran G Thirumalai
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