Re: Updated Lockup Patches, 2.6.0 Nforce2, apic timer ack delay, ioapic edge for NMI debug

Daniel Drake
2003-12-24T15:27:33Z

(also sent to Ross, forgot to CC LKML)...

Ross Dickson wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 December 2003 04:50, Daniel Drake wrote:
>
>> I then recompiled the kernel with your patches and since then it's been fine.
I spoke to soon. After your two newest patches (APIC & IOAPIC from thread
starting mail) the system did freeze again (twice) after several hours of
usage each time. I have been running with apic_tack=2 since then and have not
experienced any lockups.

> 2.6.0-test11-mm1 picked up the earlier two patches which were the topic
> of "Catching NForce2 lockup with NMI watchdog"
>
> Others had reported that those patches achieved stability?
Not for me.

Thanks

-Daniel