On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 00:10 Tony Luck wrote: | More results from other experiments ... | | 1) It occurred to me that I should check that these test cases weren't | hitting some other problem in 2.6.36-rc3. So I ported the 64-bit | version of ticket locks to the current kernel and ran the stress test. | It was still going strong at 16 hours (where all my other experiments | tend to fail at 90 minutes or less). This is consistent with the bisection that led me to the 4 bytes ticket locks commit. | Summary: the only change that helps is the 64-bit ticket locks. Ditto. Cheers, Hedi. -- Hedi Berriche Global Product Support http://www.sgi.com/support -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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