Re: [stable] Soft lockups since stable kernel upgrade to 2.6.23.8

[Ingo Molnar]

* David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > so just to reiterate, to make sure we have the same plans: lets 
> > leave v2.6.22 and earlier kernels alone - and lets strive for the 
> > latest patches and code for v2.6.23 (and v2.6.24, evidently).
> 
> I've validated that those patches make 2.6.23 behave on my Niagara 
> box.

Great and thanks for testing it! Arjan noticed the shortness of the 1 
sec sleep too, my suggestion would be to increase the sleep period to 
~50 seconds and the detection threshold to 60 seconds - that should be 
large enough - instead of complicating the tick code even more.

	Ingo
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