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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Cc: Chris Caputo <ccaputo@alt.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: inode_unused list corruption in 2.4.26 - spin_lock problem?
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:21:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040729122107.GA1024@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040729105755.GA6897@logos.cnet>

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On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 07:57:55AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:54:29AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 11:27:41PM -0700, Chris Caputo wrote:
> > > On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > > > Changing the affinity writes new values to the IOAPIC registers, I can't see
> > > > how that could interfere with the atomicity of a spinlock operation. I dont
> > > > understand why you think irqbalance could affect anything.
> > > 
> > > Because when I stop running irqbalance the crashes no longer happen.
> > 
> > what is the irq distribution when you do that?
> > Can you run irqbalance for a bit to make sure there's a static distribution
> > of irq's and then disable it and see if it survives ?
> 
> Chris, Yes I'm also running irqbalance. 
> 
> Arjan, what is an easy way for me to make irqbalance change the affinity
> as crazy on the SMP 8way box, just for a test?

there is a sleep(10 seconds) in the code, if you change that to something
really short and then cause irq burst rates on different devices...



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  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-29 12:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-19  0:47 inode_unused list corruption in 2.4.26 - spin_lock problem? Chris Caputo
2004-06-20  0:15 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-06-20  3:33   ` Trond Myklebust
2004-06-21  0:45     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-06-21 17:10       ` Trond Myklebust
2004-06-21 18:23         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-06-24  1:51         ` Chris Caputo
2004-06-25  7:47           ` Chris Caputo
2004-06-24  1:50   ` Chris Caputo
2004-06-25  8:04     ` Chris Caputo
2004-06-25 10:18       ` Chris Caputo
2004-06-25 12:17     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-07-02 20:00       ` Chris Caputo
2004-07-03  5:15         ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-07-26 17:41           ` Chris Caputo
2004-07-27 14:19             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-07-27 16:08               ` Chris Caputo
2004-07-29  0:25                 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-07-29  6:27                   ` Chris Caputo
2004-07-29  7:54                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-07-29 10:57                       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-07-29 12:21                         ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2004-07-29 16:22                           ` Chris Caputo
2004-07-29 16:23                             ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-08-04 15:38                               ` Chris Caputo
2004-08-04 18:47                                 ` Chris Caputo
     [not found] <20040805225549.GA18420@logos.cnet>
2004-08-07 16:00 ` Chris Caputo
2004-08-07 18:31   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-07 19:36   ` Marcelo Tosatti

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