Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 23:55:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 23:55:36 -0400 Received: from dp.samba.org ([66.70.73.150]:65229 "EHLO lists.samba.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 17 Sep 2002 23:55:35 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 13:22:27 +1000 From: Rusty Russell To: Dave Hansen Cc: akpm@zip.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com, mingo@elte.hu, Benjamin LaHaise Subject: Re: [PATCH] 4KB stack + irq stack for x86 Message-Id: <20020918132227.6a323aff.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3D7FCB09.7050105@us.ibm.com> References: <3D7FCB09.7050105@us.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; powerpc-debian-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1133 Lines: 26 On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 16:00:25 -0700 Dave Hansen wrote: > This is a resync of the last patch for 2.5.34 that resulted from this discussion > (not the original patch): > http://lwn.net/Articles/1642/ > The only change was readding the reference to task_info in the beginning of > common_interrupt. It had been dropped when we stopped messing with > preempt_count there. > > I've beaten this thing with my normal array of Specweb tests and it is behaving > so far. I've booted on an 8-way with and without SMP. I'd really like to see this in 2.5, if only to make massively threaded programs using Ingo's pthreads mods even more viable, and show up those people who think userspace threading libraries are a good idea 8) Rusty. -- there are those who do and those who hang on and you don't see too many doers quoting their contemporaries. -- Larry McVoy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/