Re: [patch] O(1) scheduler, -D1, 2.5.2-pre9, 2.4.17

[Mike Kravetz <kravetz _at_ us.ibm.com>]

On Thu, Jan 10, 2002 at 11:08:21AM -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> > >
> > > I just kicked off another benchmark run to compare pre10, pre10 & G1
> > > patch, pre10 & Davide's patch.
> >
> > It wasn't a good night for benchmarking.  I had a typo in the
> > script to run chat reniced and as a result didn't collect any
> > numbers for this.  In addition, the kernel with Davide's patch
> > failed to boot with 8 CPUs enabled.  Can't see any '# CPU specific'
> > mods in the patch.  In any case, here is what I do have.
> 
> Doh !! Do you have a panic dump Mike ?

It didn't panic, but hung during the boot process.  After
reading other mail, this may be caused by the out of order
locking bug/deadlock that existed in this version of the
O(1) scheduler.  I may be able to try and verify later today.
Right now the machine is being used for something else.

-- 
Mike
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