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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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> In article <20020904023535.73D922C12D@lists.samba.org> Rusty Russell wrote:
>> This might explain the wierd per-cpu problem reports from Andrew and
>> Dave, and also that nagging feeling that I'm an idiot...

On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 02:40:23PM +0530, Dipankar Sarma wrote:
> Not only does this fix the tasklet BUG with 2.5.32 but it also fixes a serial
> console hang with my 2.5.32 version of Ingo/Davem/Alexey's scalable timers 
> code that I have been debugging for the last two days. I use
> a per-cpu tasklet to run the timers, so it was probably killing me
> there.

Are you running on NUMA-Q? Do you also see the tty deadlock?


Thanks,
Bill
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