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Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:50:24 -0600
From: "K.R. Foley" <kr@cybsft.com>
Organization: Cybersoft Solutions, Inc.
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To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-rc1-V0.7.41-00
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Lee Revell wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 20:16 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
>>the biggest change in this patch is the merge of Paul E. McKenney's
>>preemptable RCU code. The new RCU code is active on PREEMPT_RT. While it
>>is still quite experimental at this stage, it allowed the removal of
>>locking cruft (mainly in the networking code), so it could solve some of
>>the longstanding netfilter/networking deadlocks/crashes reported by a
>>number of people. Be careful nevertheless.
> 
> 
> With PREEMPT_RT my machine deadlocked within 20 minutes of boot.
> "apt-get dist-upgrade" seemed to trigger the crash.  I did not see any
> Oops unfortunately.
> 
> Lee
> 

Lee,

Just curious. Is this with UP or SMP? I currently have my UP box running 
  PREEMPT_RT, with no problems thus far. However, my SMP box dies while 
booting (with an oops). I am working on trying to get setup to capture 
the oops, although it might be tomorrow before I get that done.

-- 
    kr
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