Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 16:01:26 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: FW: cvs commit: src/sys/alpha/alpha machdep.c src/sys/alpha/ Message-ID: <XFMail.011220160126.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.011220155204.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On 20-Dec-01 John Baldwin wrote: > If you've been having problems with SMP kernels, see if this fixes it. It > certainly greatly improves the stability of the DS20 I have here with an SMP > kernel. I would like to try and get interrupt preemption turned back on as > well with this if possible as this may fix the problems we were having with > that. Several of the chipsets didn't even bother to disable interrupts while > they fiddled with the ICU registers. Also note that there are lots of splhigh's still in sys/alpha which don't do anything atm. Most of them most likely need to become spin mutexes and I'll look at some of them in the coming weeks, however, if someone else wants to dive in and help, go for it. :) -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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