Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 20:06:31 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
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       asit.k.mallick@intel.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] i386 x86-64 Eliminate Local APIC timer interrupt
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"Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> wrote:
>
> I did test this patch on variety of systems and didn't see any failures.

OK.

>  Probably some other change in mm conflicting with this patch? 

Could well be.

>  Is there way to get the all the patches in mm, so that I can try same
>  Kernel and reproduce this failure?

I'm reluctant to do that, because the -mm lineup is usually a hysterical
pile of crap - you wouldn't believe what people send me.  I actually do a
lot of testing, despite appearances ;)

>  I agree though that this patch is very risky and needs some discussion 
>  and lot of testing before it goes into base.

OK.

We need to get the x86 stuff in -mm reviewed, tested, settled down and
merged up before we can move any further forward, I think.

If x86_64 manages to limp to a login prompt I'll put rc3-mm1 up later this
evening.
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