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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 23:56:32 -0700
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> I've got a few of those around, I'll see if I can reproduce it. How many
>> cpu's did you need to bring it out?

On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 06:48:45AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 2 physical - but i'd suggest to test Erich's patch instead. I had
> debugging code in the scheduler which did printks, which slowed down some
> of the operations in question, such as the startup of the idle thread -
> which created weird situations. [which might not occur in normal testing,
> but which are possible nevertheless.]

That's not many. I'll try it on a bigger one, with a few big fat printk's
in idle task startup and see if I can bring it down. It's an interesting
little tidbit of programming.

As I said earlier, Erich's patch already passed my testing. Thanks though.


Cheers,
Bill
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