Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 12:12:40 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI mpsafe patch for testing Message-ID: <20040812191240.GA30489@dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <411BBE25.3070404@root.org> References: <411BA70D.7010804@root.org> <20040812185649.GA30420@dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net> <411BBE25.3070404@root.org>
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On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 11:59:49AM -0700, Nate Lawson wrote: > > For ia64, I was most concerned about alignment issues. So anything (UP > or SMP) that exercises code paths is helpful. The only SMP-specific > things to test are power-off on shutdown. Run it a bunch of times to be > sure that it continues to work. Note this isn't in the acpi locking > path but ACPI-CA has its own locks which are now not redundantly covered > by Giant. It has been running this way in Linux for a year or so. > Still, it's good to have that test coverage too. Ok, will do. I probably won't have it done by the time you planned to commit this, but given current results I suggest you don't wait... -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net
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