Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 07:53:07 +0200
From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
       linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PPC64] Improved VSID allocation algorithm
Message-ID: <20040930055307.GA15291@suse.de>
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 On Thu, Sep 30, David Gibson wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 09:47:30PM +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> >  On Mon, Sep 13, David Gibson wrote:
> > 
> > > Andrew, please apply.  This patch has been tested both on SLB and
> > > segment table machines.  This new approach is far from the final word
> > > in VSID/context allocation, but it's a noticeable improvement on the
> > > old method.
> > 
> > This patch went into 2.6.9-rc2-bk2, and my p640 does not boot anymore.
> > Hangs after 'returning from prom_init', wants a power cycle.
> 
> Have you isolated the problem to the VSID allocation patch?  I think
> there may have been a number of ppc64 changes which went into
> 2.6.9-rc2-bk2.

Yes, rc2 does not boot on power3 with that patch.

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