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Subject: Re: Timer interrupt stops, causes soft lockup
From: "Joel K. Greene" <joel.greene@catapult.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
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Hi Arjan,

Thanks for your response. 

Sorry for the long post, I think the issue required a lot of detail. I'm
sure that it was easy to overlook that this is still an issue in a 6
week old kernel:
>  Yesterday I pulled down 2.6.16.60 from kernel.org and built that
> kernel with HZ=1000 and reproduced the problem in about 7 hours.

It looks like from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ that .16
is the longest-running subversion and is still being maintained. Is
there a better list for 2.6.16 issues?

I am testing 2.6.24.3 now. I am not going tickless. I am not using PIT
with any of the kernels I am testing.



Thanks,
Joel.