Re: 2.6.16-rtXYZ hangs at boot on quad Opteron

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 11 May 2006, Clark Williams wrote:

> Robert Crocombe wrote:
> > testing NMI watchdog ... OK.
> >
> > where we croak.  On the non-realtime version, it is instead like so:
>
> Yeah, this is where my Athlon64x2 goes into the weeds.  I followed it
> down into the routines that calculate processor migration costs and
> got lost in the context switches.  I suspect that the forced
> migrations aggravate a problem down in the 64-bit arch specific code
> that hasn't been looked at in a while (I believe most people running
> AMD are doing so in 32-bit mode).
>
> Maybe it's time for round two...
>

Hmm, I run my AMDx2 in 64bit kernel mode and 32bit user space.  But since
it is my main machine I don't usually test the new -rt kernels on it that
often.  Looks like when I'm back in the States, I'll have to test it
again.

-- Steve

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