From: Scott Wood <scott@timesys.com>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: Scott Wood <scott@timesys.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
manas.saksena@timesys.com,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
nando@ccrma.stanford.edu
Subject: Re: [patch] PPC/PPC64 port of voluntary preempt patch
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 12:38:13 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040826163813.GA14963@yoda.timesys> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1093490252.5678.56.camel@krustophenia.net>
On Wed, Aug 25, 2004 at 11:17:32PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> I think Scott may be on to something. There are several reports that P9
> does not work on SMP machines at all - it either doesn't boot, locks up
> the first time there is heavy IRQ activity (starting KDE), or locks up
> as soon as the first RT process is run. This is exactly the behavior
> that would be expected if Scott is correct. See this thread:
>
> http://ccrma-mail.stanford.edu/pipermail/planetccrma/2004-August/005899.html
>
> Does anyone have P9 working on SMP? Fernando, can you see if M5 works
> on SMP? If this works it would seem that the preemptible IRQs are the
> problem.
It worked for me on an SMP G5, but it would depend on which drivers
are used; some use synchronize_irq() more than others.
IIRC, though, M5 didn't have the IO-APIC fixes, so that's not likely
to work well on SMP either.
-Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-26 16:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 93+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-23 22:18 Scott Wood
2004-08-24 6:14 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P9 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-24 17:43 ` K.R. Foley
2004-08-24 20:32 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-24 20:53 ` Scott Wood
2004-08-24 19:20 ` K.R. Foley
2004-08-24 22:47 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-25 2:00 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-25 3:17 ` K.R. Foley
2004-08-25 3:22 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-25 14:34 ` K.R. Foley
2004-08-25 16:00 ` K.R. Foley
2004-08-25 3:26 ` K.R. Foley
2004-08-25 9:58 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P9 : oprofile latency at 3.3ms P.O. Gaillard
2004-08-26 21:39 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P9 Lee Revell
2004-08-27 16:54 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-28 7:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-28 15:10 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-28 12:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-30 9:27 ` voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P9 : big latency when logging on console P.O. Gaillard
2004-08-30 9:41 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-30 12:25 ` P.O. Gaillard
2004-08-30 9:48 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8.1-P9 : a few submillisecond latencies P.O. Gaillard
2004-08-28 12:03 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q0 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-28 16:18 ` Felipe Alfaro Solana
2004-08-28 16:50 ` K.R. Foley
2004-08-28 17:52 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-28 19:44 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q2 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-28 20:01 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-28 20:04 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-28 20:08 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-28 20:10 ` Daniel Schmitt
2004-08-28 20:31 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q3 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-28 21:10 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-28 21:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-28 21:16 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-28 23:51 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-29 2:35 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-29 5:43 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q4 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-29 6:57 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-29 18:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-29 19:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-30 0:47 ` K.R. Foley
2004-08-30 3:42 ` K.R. Foley
2004-08-30 13:06 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-30 17:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 16:39 ` K.R. Foley
2004-08-30 9:06 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q5 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-30 14:25 ` Thomas Charbonnel
2004-08-30 18:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 19:23 ` Thomas Charbonnel
2004-08-31 19:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 19:45 ` Thomas Charbonnel
2004-08-31 6:40 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 6:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 23:03 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-01 15:52 ` Martin Josefsson
2004-09-01 21:15 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-01 21:30 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 7:06 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 19:21 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 19:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 19:47 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 19:51 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 20:09 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 20:10 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 20:14 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 20:20 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 20:34 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 20:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-31 20:41 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-31 17:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2004-09-01 1:43 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-01 2:30 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-01 7:27 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-01 8:29 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q6 Ingo Molnar
2004-09-01 13:51 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q7 Ingo Molnar
2004-09-01 17:09 ` Thomas Charbonnel
2004-09-01 19:03 ` K.R. Foley
2004-09-01 20:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2004-09-01 20:16 ` Lee Revell
2004-09-01 20:53 ` K.R. Foley
[not found] ` <41367E5D.3040605@cybsft.com>
2004-09-02 5:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-09-02 5:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-30 12:52 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q3 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-29 7:40 ` Matt Heler
2004-08-24 19:51 ` [patch] PPC/PPC64 port of voluntary preempt patch Scott Wood
2004-08-26 3:17 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-26 16:38 ` Scott Wood [this message]
2004-08-27 1:18 ` Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano
2004-08-28 12:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-08-28 13:01 ` [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.9-rc1-bk4-Q1 Ingo Molnar
2004-08-30 1:06 ` Fernando Pablo Lopez-Lezcano
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