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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:09:34 +0530
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Subject: Re: SMP support for XLR processors.
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On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 20 Apr 2010, at 12:06, C. Jayachandran wrote:
>> I'm not seeing the issue here(my output for ref below). =A0The rge patch
>> should not really make a difference - but it will be good to try with
>> that. =A0The only other difference I can think of between our configs is
>> MFS root/NFS root and rge0/rge1 - but none of these should affect the
>> message ring threads. =A0Can you send me the config you use?
>
...
> I use the basic XLR config with some mods:
> +options =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0PREEMPTION =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0# Enable ke=
rnel thread preemption
...

As Randall said, this may be the issue, I haven't had much time to
look at this, since I'm still looking at another issue. Do you still
have the issue without PREEMPTION?

Thanks,
JC.