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Date:      Fri, 09 Jul 2004 12:53:53 -0500
From:      Jon Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu>
To:        Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Native preemption is the culprit [was Re: today's CURRENT lockups]
Message-ID:  <40EEDBB1.6090903@alumni.rice.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20040709172511.GA10540@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
References:  <20040705184940.GA2651@tybalt.greiner.local> <200407081317.53981.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040709111955.2901ce5b.taku@tackymt.homeip.net> <200407091315.16899.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <40EED38D.9010903@alumni.rice.edu> <20040709172511.GA10540@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>

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On 07/09/04 12:25, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 12:19:09PM -0500, Jon Noack wrote:
>> On 07/09/04 12:15, John Baldwin wrote:
>>> My test machine is not a true SMP machine either, just HTT.  It
>>> has been running a -j 256 worldloop overnight with no problems,
>>> so I committed a slightly modified version of the patch
>>> yesterday.
>> 
>> Did you test with a UP kernel?  After your latest commit I have
>> been experiencing regular hard locks on my pre-HTT P4 machine.
>> Backing out rev. 1.114 of sched_ule.c fixes it.  See my previous
>> message (Re: FreeBSD keeps hanging......): 
>> http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?40EECC49.3070501
> 
> I've tested it on a UP kernel (HTT enabled, ACPI disabled, APIC
> enabled, ULE).   Appears to work fine.

Perhaps it's just extraneous information, but if it's really a UP kernel 
(as in, no 'options SMP') then whether you have HTT enabled doesn't 
matter at all -- the kernel won't use it.

Jon



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