From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965031AbVHZBc2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:32:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965044AbVHZBc2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:32:28 -0400 Received: from smtp208.mail.sc5.yahoo.com ([216.136.130.116]:33202 "HELO smtp208.mail.sc5.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S965031AbVHZBc1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Aug 2005 21:32:27 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com.au; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:X-Accept-Language:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=hHsANFIi3xPUd8nR3wSAM8+nu2uYdiYO0yzsyy5MZzupy3Myc9SqnsIeg/eLyREuPcT+i5ITJW3Y1NjXDr7unrBFQwBm+MuO4sBNwljr86vL5aRhzrDyYGVIuF5rAwaQARUs6DIkDoqMIAi4LWenEfPrd15Xx/GEOZ2PCH38AqA= ; Message-ID: <430E7132.9060800@yahoo.com.au> Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:32:34 +1000 From: Nick Piggin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Debian/1.7.8-1 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Jackson CC: torvalds@osdl.org, Andrew Morton , 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 References: <20050825194750.7341.75723.sendpatchset@jackhammer.engr.sgi.com> <20050825194756.7341.83327.sendpatchset@jackhammer.engr.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20050825194756.7341.83327.sendpatchset@jackhammer.engr.sgi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com