Re: SMP broken on Dell PowerEdge 4100/200 under 2.6.0-testxx?

Adam Kropelin
2003-12-06T14:05:34Z

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 08:37:57PM -0800, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 05:28:38AM +0100, Stian Jordet wrote:
> > Uhm.. I was under the impression that this was expected behaviour? If
> > not, I guess I'm having problems too?
> > CPU0 CPU1
> > 0: 91068534 45 IO-APIC-edge timer
> > 1: 65293 1 IO-APIC-edge i8042
> > 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
> > 3: 71 1 IO-APIC-edge serial
> > 8: 325118 1 IO-APIC-edge rtc
> > 9: 0 0 IO-APIC-level acpi
> > 14: 245619 1 IO-APIC-edge ide0
>
> Yeah, it looks like it hit you too.
>
> Could you boot with noirqbalance on the kernel commandline and see if
> the problem goes away?

Sounds like you have things under control, but if you need another data
point I can provide my info. Dual ppro200, same behaviors described in
this thread. Booting with noirqbalance fixes it.

--Adam