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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	paulus@samba.org, mingo@elte.hu, hawkes@sgi.com, dino@in.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc7 2/2] completely disable cpu_exclusive sched domain
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:32:34 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <430E7132.9060800@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050825194756.7341.83327.sendpatchset@jackhammer.engr.sgi.com>

Paul Jackson wrote:
> At the suggestion of Nick Piggin and Dinakar, totally disable
> the facility to allow cpu_exclusive cpusets to define dynamic
> sched domains in Linux 2.6.13, in order to avoid problems
> first reported by John Hawkes (corrupt sched data structures
> and kernel oops).
> 
> This has been built for ppc64, i386, ia64, x86_64, sparc, alpha.
> It has been built, booted and tested for cpuset functionality
> on an SN2 (ia64).
> 
> Dinakar or Nick - could you verify that it for sure does avoid
> the problems Hawkes reported.  Hawkes is out of town, and I don't
> have the recipe to reproduce what he found.
> 

Thanks Paul, I was never able to reproduce the problem, but
I'm sure Dinakar should be able to test.

Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>

-- 
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

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      reply	other threads:[~2005-08-26  1:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-25 19:47 [PATCH 2.6.13-rc7 1/2] undo partial cpu_exclusive sched domain disabling Paul Jackson
2005-08-25 19:47 ` [PATCH 2.6.13-rc7 2/2] completely disable cpu_exclusive sched domain Paul Jackson
2005-08-26  1:32   ` Nick Piggin [this message]

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