Re: NForce2 pseudoscience stability testing (2.6.0-test11) - IRQ flood related ?

[Craig Bradney <cbradney@zip.com.au>]

Prakash,

try it without preempt.. just to see. As soon as I removed it today the
crashes went away (for 5 hours).. PC is now up for 2.5 hours and I'm
waiting to see if it will be 5 hrs or 5 days this time around :)

Craig

On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 00:14, Prakash K. Cheemplavam wrote:
> Jesse Allen wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 09:02:08PM +0100, cheuche+lkml@free.fr wrote:
> > 
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>Along with the lockups already described here, I've noticed an
> >>unidentified source of interrupts on IRQ7.
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> >>I wonder if people experiencing lockup problems also have these
> >>noise interrupts,
> > 
> > 
> > I just took a look at this, by setting up parport_pc, and yes I get noise.
> > 
> > This was my first sample with a kernel with APIC:
> >   7:      29230    IO-APIC-edge  parport0
> 
> I just did an experminent with a very light kernel, nearly nothing 
> compiled inside, except apic acpi, preempt and needed stuff plus 
> scsi+libata and no ide. IRQ 7 was not present and every device had its 
> own irq. Nevertheless system locked up at second hdparm run...
> 
> Prakash
> 
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