Re: PREEMPT on PPC
On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 03:55, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > Note that I'm not sure how tightly the problems are tied to swap; after
> > they start, they seem to persist even when swap is no longer used. It's
> > just the best criterion I've been able to identify so far.
>
> Weird. I just can't reproduce any of your problems, neither on the
> tipb with highmem & lots of RAM, or on the wallstreet with no highmem
> and little RAM (thus swap)...
>
> I've been running with preempt for a few days now without trouble.
>
> What else are you using ? I suspect something like MOL may have troubles
> with preempt for example...
Not using that regularly. Not sure what's special about my setup, XFS
maybe?
What about this:
-CONFIG_TASK_SIZE=0xc0000000
+CONFIG_TASK_SIZE=0x80000000
I can't seem to find any other significant differences between
pmac_defconfig and mine. I'll keep trying...
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