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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: deadlocks if use htb
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 12:18:01 +0000
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 12:00:50PM +0000, Chris Caputo wrote:
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> I wish I had a repro scenario in a non-production environment, so I could 
> help out further with this.  If I did, I would test without nmi_watchdog 
> while trying just 2.6.28 and Jarek's #4 patch.

I think this watchdog doesn't matter too much yet. Probably it's more
about hardware (smp, maybe kind of hw timer), and high traffic vs. htb
rules.

Jarek P.