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From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
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Subject: Re: I am getting good reports on the latest -current stuff
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> In reply to John S. Dyson who wrote:
> > > According to John S. Dyson:
> > > > Included in these changes are LL support of per-CPU kernel stacks
> > > > for threaded processes (higher level kernel support isn't there yet),
> > > > a little support for CPU affinity, and much more intelligent usage of
> > > > TLB IPI's.  The number of bugs fixed is overwhelming.
> > > 
> > > Are these patches interesting to UP systems too ? If you have fixed that
> > > many bugs, I guess yes...
> > > 
> > Yes, they should be helpful.  I have not beat on my system under UP like
> > I have using the SMP version of the kernel, but I do know that there were
> > windows in UP mode that this code will fix.  Also, the code has been
> > carefully scheduled to work (nearly) optimally on P5/P6 machines, so
> > there should be a nearly unmeasurable improvement for UP even just with
> > the swtch.s changes.
> 
> Hmm, I just tried the sys*7b patches, and it hangs my dual P6/200 solid
> very fast in a make world, it just locks up, and is totally cactus.
> 
What size memory do you have?  Do you have any hints?

>
> I saw that it turned on WC on the videocards mem (S3 ViRGE/DK 4M), and
> that might be the problem, on the other hand the system wasn't running
> X at the time, so that mem shouldn't be in use....
>
That *might* be a problem, but I highly doubt it.

> 
> Oh, I run with SLICE/DEVFS if that matters, else plain of the hour
> -current sources...
> 
There *might* be a latent bug in the DEVFS code???


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