Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 18:34:53 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_mutex.c Message-ID: <XFMail.20020604183453.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20020604152034.A12108@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On 04-Jun-2002 David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 06:09:20PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: >> Not tested on Alpha SMP because SMP Alpha kernels aren't stable under >> load now. I've had various lockups or weird NULL pointer bugs (as if a >> thread variable passed down the stack suddenly became NULL) for a month >> or two now. SMP sparc64 doesn't boot atm, hence no testing on it. > > A month or two is a long time for such serious breakage to go unfixed. > You don't have any idea where this is happening? Getting down to only > pentiumpro and later SMP boxes working things have a good chance of going > out broken in 5.0-RELEASE. I'm not superhuman and have been busy doing other work-related stuff for a while now. Hopefully I can get some cycles to test why alpha SMP is hosed in the very near future. -- 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 cvs-all" in the body of the message
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