From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261997AbVFQPeB (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:34:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261998AbVFQPeB (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:34:01 -0400 Received: from mxsf08.cluster1.charter.net ([209.225.28.208]:29417 "EHLO mxsf08.cluster1.charter.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261997AbVFQPd4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2005 11:33:56 -0400 X-IronPort-AV: i="3.93,208,1115006400"; d="scan'208"; a="1187165466:sNHT19636776" Message-ID: <42B2ED5F.5080607@cybsft.com> Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 10:33:51 -0500 From: "K.R. Foley" Organization: Cybersoft Solutions, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Eugeny S. Mints" , Daniel Walker Subject: Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc6-V0.7.48-00 References: <20050608112801.GA31084@elte.hu> <42B0F72D.5040405@cybsft.com> <20050616072935.GB19772@elte.hu> <42B160F5.9060208@cybsft.com> <20050616173247.GA32552@elte.hu> <42B1BDF7.1000700@cybsft.com> <20050616204358.GA4656@elte.hu> <20050617111822.GA28236@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20050617111822.GA28236@elte.hu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Ingo Molnar wrote: > > >>>There doesn't seem to be any actual lockups, just messages. I will try >>>disabling the above when I get home this evening. Can't get to the >>>system right now. >> >>i tweaked the softlockup detector in the last patch a bit (to fix >>false positives under very high loads), might have broken it on SMP. > > > yeah - found a bug that could explain the symptoms on your system. > Called softlockup_tick() from the global timer interrupt, instead of the > per-CPU timer interrupt. So on SMP the other CPUs would not see any > softlockup ticks at all, and would incorrectly report soft lockups. > This bug is fixed in the -48-36 patch i just uploaded. > > Ingo > -48-36 has been up and running for about 45 minutes now and everything seems much better. I held off because the soft lock ups didn't seem to manifest themselves right away. thanks, -- kr