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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: dynticks + iptables almost stops the boot process [was: Re:
	2.6.20-rc6-mm3]
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 21:27:14 +0100
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On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 20:18 +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> > May I ask you for another test ? Please turn on high resolution timers
> > and check, if the same strange behaviour is happening.
> 
> Yep, here we go again. Still seeing long stalls but no negative expires
> offset.
> Actually one more test I did is disabling my iptables script and the
> boot process went fine. The script is just:

Mattia,

I have it halfways reproducible now and I'm working to find the root
cause. Thanks for providing the info.

	tglx