From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965854AbXCVImE (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2007 04:42:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965855AbXCVImE (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2007 04:42:04 -0400 Received: from hellhawk.shadowen.org ([80.68.90.175]:2363 "EHLO hellhawk.shadowen.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965854AbXCVImB (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Mar 2007 04:42:01 -0400 Message-ID: <4602413C.6000504@shadowen.org> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 08:41:32 +0000 From: Andy Whitcroft User-Agent: Icedove 1.5.0.9 (X11/20061220) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andy Whitcroft CC: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Steve Fox , "Martin J. Bligh" , Con Kolivas Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1 References: <20070319205623.299d0378.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <45FFAD50.8060108@shadowen.org> In-Reply-To: <45FFAD50.8060108@shadowen.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 OpenPGP: url=http://www.shadowen.org/~apw/public-key Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andy Whitcroft wrote: > Andrew Morton wrote: >> Temporarily at >> >> http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/ >> >> Will appear later at >> >> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.21-rc4/2.6.21-rc4-mm1/ >> >> >> > > [All of the below is from the pre hot-fix runs. The very few results > which are in for the hot-fix runs seem worse if anything. :( All > results should be out on TKO.] > >> - Restored the RSDL CPU scheduler (a new version thereof) > > Unsure if the above is the culprit but there seems to be a smattering of > BUG's in kernbench from the schedular on several systems, and panics > which do not fully dump out. > > elm3b239 is about 2/4 kernbench being the test in progress when we > blammo in both failed tests, elm3b234 doesn't boot at all. Well I have one result through for backing RSDL out on elm3b239 and that does indeed seem to give us a successful boot and test. peterz has pointed me to an incremental patch from Con which I'll push through testing and see if that sorts it out. -apw