Re: NForce2 pseudoscience stability testing (2.6.0-test11) - IRQ flood related ?

[Bob <recbo@nishanet.com>]

Do you have onboard ethernet enabled with nforce2
mboard? I am fine with pre-emptive kernel but have
to disable onboard ethernet in cmos setup or I see
"Disabling IRQ7" and problems develop.

-Bob

Craig Bradney wrote:

>Prakash,
>
>try it without preempt.. just to see. As soon as I removed it today the
>crashes went away (for 5 hours).. PC is now up for 2.5 hours and I'm
>waiting to see if it will be 5 hrs or 5 days this time around :)
>
>Craig
>
>On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 00:14, Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote:
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>>Jesse Allen wrote:
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>>>On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:02:08PM +0100, cheuche+lkml@free.fr wrote:
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Hello,
>>>>
>>>>Along with the lockups already described here, I've noticed an
>>>>unidentified source of interrupts on IRQ7.
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>...
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>I wonder if people experiencing lockup problems also have these
>>>>noise interrupts,
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>I just took a look at this, by setting up parport_pc, and yes I get noise.
>>>
>>>This was my first sample with a kernel with APIC:
>>>  7:      29230    IO-APIC-edge  parport0
>>>      
>>>
>>I just did an experminent with a very light kernel, nearly nothing 
>>compiled inside, except apic acpi, preempt and needed stuff plus 
>>scsi+libata and no ide. IRQ 7 was not present and every device had its 
>>own irq. Nevertheless system locked up at second hdparm run...
>>
>>Prakash
>>
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