Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.41-00

[K.R. Foley]

Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 20:16 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> > the biggest change in this patch is the merge of Paul E. McKenney's
> > preemptable RCU code. The new RCU code is active on PREEMPT_RT. While it
> > is still quite experimental at this stage, it allowed the removal of
> > locking cruft (mainly in the networking code), so it could solve some of
> > the longstanding netfilter/networking deadlocks/crashes reported by a
> > number of people. Be careful nevertheless.
>
>
> With PREEMPT_RT my machine deadlocked within 20 minutes of boot.
> "apt-get dist-upgrade" seemed to trigger the crash.  I did not see any
> Oops unfortunately.
>
> Lee

Lee,

Just curious. Is this with UP or SMP? I currently have my UP box running 
 PREEMPT_RT, with no problems thus far. However, my SMP box dies while 
booting (with an oops). I am working on trying to get setup to capture 
the oops, although it might be tomorrow before I get that done.

--
   kr
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