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From: Lincoln Dale <ltd@cisco.com>
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jmerkey wrote:

> It might be helpful for someone to look at these sections of code I 
> had to patch in 2.6.9.
> I discovered a case where the kernel scheduler will pass NULL for the 
> array argument
> when I started hitting the extreme upper range > 200MB/S combined disk 
> and lan
> throughput.  This was running with preemptible kernel and 
> hyperthreading enabled.

Jeff,

you are running a tainted kernel since you're loading proprietary modules.
you'd better go back to your vendor for support.
haha.


cheers,

lincoln.

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