From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
rajesh.shah@intel.com, johnstul@us.ibm.com, ak@suse.de,
asit.k.mallick@intel.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] i386 x86-64 Eliminate Local APIC timer interrupt
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 20:06:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050429200631.45616043.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <88056F38E9E48644A0F562A38C64FB60049EE97A@scsmsx403.amr.corp.intel.com>
"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> wrote:
>
> I did test this patch on variety of systems and didn't see any failures.
OK.
> Probably some other change in mm conflicting with this patch?
Could well be.
> Is there way to get the all the patches in mm, so that I can try same
> Kernel and reproduce this failure?
I'm reluctant to do that, because the -mm lineup is usually a hysterical
pile of crap - you wouldn't believe what people send me. I actually do a
lot of testing, despite appearances ;)
> I agree though that this patch is very risky and needs some discussion
> and lot of testing before it goes into base.
OK.
We need to get the x86 stuff in -mm reviewed, tested, settled down and
merged up before we can move any further forward, I think.
If x86_64 manages to limp to a login prompt I'll put rc3-mm1 up later this
evening.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-30 3:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-30 2:55 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2005-04-30 3:06 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-05-02 21:19 ` Pavel Machek
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-04-30 19:40 Protasevich, Natalie
2005-04-30 2:43 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2005-05-05 4:16 ` Len Brown
2005-05-05 12:03 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-05 12:32 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-04-30 0:26 Venkatesh Pallipadi
2005-04-30 0:46 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-04-30 0:58 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-04-30 1:13 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2005-04-30 2:32 ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-02 16:38 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-02 17:16 ` Venkatesh Pallipadi
2005-05-02 19:08 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-02 20:27 ` Venkatesh Pallipadi
2005-05-03 14:17 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-05 5:33 ` Len Brown
2005-05-05 12:19 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-11 18:12 ` Tony Lindgren
2005-05-05 20:45 ` George Anzinger
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