From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758754AbYHZQIx (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:08:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755853AbYHZQIp (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:08:45 -0400 Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.150]:55180 "EHLO e32.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756149AbYHZQIo (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:08:44 -0400 Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:08:38 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Manfred Spraul Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH] state machine based rcu Message-ID: <20080826160838.GA11279@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <48AD8969.7060900@colorfullife.com> <20080822190250.GH6744@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <48AFC751.2020806@colorfullife.com> <20080824170949.GG6851@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080824170949.GG6851@linux.vnet.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 10:09:49AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 10:16:17AM +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote: > > Btw, does STP still exist? I'd like to do some testing on real SMP > > hardware. http://stp.testing.osdl.org/ appears to be dead. > > I believe that it has indeed passed on. > > I have occasional access to some 128-CPU machines, but they both > currently being used for a week-long test sequence, so I won't have > access to them for some time. Once they free up, I would be happy to > run some short (a few hours) tests on them, given a patch stack starting > from a Linux release (e.g., 2.6.27-rc1). Given such a patch stack, I > can simply point the machine at it. The automated test system doesn't > yet understand git trees. :-/ The big long test is over, so if you can send me a patch against some Linus tree, I will see about testing your code. Assuming someone else doesn't jump on the machines first, that is... :-/ Thanx, Paul