From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262930AbTDFLMd (for ); Sun, 6 Apr 2003 07:12:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262931AbTDFLMd (for ); Sun, 6 Apr 2003 07:12:33 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.224.33.161]:3226 "EHLO holomorphy") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262930AbTDFLMc (for ); Sun, 6 Apr 2003 07:12:32 -0400 Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 04:23:40 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: Zwane Mwaikambo Cc: Linux Kernel , Robert Love , Martin Bligh Subject: Re: 2.5.65-preempt booting on 32way NUMAQ Message-ID: <20030406112340.GM993@holomorphy.com> Mail-Followup-To: William Lee Irwin III , Zwane Mwaikambo , Linux Kernel , Robert Love , Martin Bligh References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 06:48:33AM -0400, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote: > Robert i suppose you can add another notch on your erm.. bedpost(?) > and congratulations to all the kernel developers! It survived some > local networking stress tests, but there is more fun stuff like tty > layer to completely obliterate ;) Wow! This has had a hard time historically. I'm really glad NUMA-Q's are now immune (in the sense of correctness) to this config; previously it was believed that preemption points in printk(linux_banner) would take out the machine early in boot if preemption was enabled. Congratulations rml! If you're booting without issues on these things, you are a _very_ long way toward being race-free. This is incredibly good news, both for the preemption support, and for the general stability of the i386 bootstrap. All that's really left is driver and non-i386 arch coverage if I'm right. -- wli