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Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 22:37:08 +0100
From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
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To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Bill Davidsen wrote:

>Don't know about his, my app does, it's only a benchmark, but I do see bad
>behaviour from time to time (total lockups) on SMP machines.
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>  
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Could you try Bernhard's patch? Lockless receive is nice, but fixing the 
found race would be really tricky, and is probably not worth the effort.

--
    Manfred


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