Re: [RFC, PATCH] state machine based rcu

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue Aug 26 2008 - 12:08:54 EST


On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 10:09:49AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 10:16:17AM +0200, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> > Btw, does STP still exist? I'd like to do some testing on real SMP
> > hardware. http://stp.testing.osdl.org/ appears to be dead.
>
> I believe that it has indeed passed on.
>
> I have occasional access to some 128-CPU machines, but they both
> currently being used for a week-long test sequence, so I won't have
> access to them for some time. Once they free up, I would be happy to
> run some short (a few hours) tests on them, given a patch stack starting
> from a Linux release (e.g., 2.6.27-rc1). Given such a patch stack, I
> can simply point the machine at it. The automated test system doesn't
> yet understand git trees. :-/

The big long test is over, so if you can send me a patch against some
Linus tree, I will see about testing your code. Assuming someone else
doesn't jump on the machines first, that is... :-/

Thanx, Paul
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