On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 04:44:27PM +0200, Thibaut VARÈNE wrote: ... > I'm not sure, it's been a very long time since I last tracked down this > bug. Maybe I'm remembering it wrong. > FWIW, no MSI on this machine (L1000) and PCI card (sym53c896). Ok - true. We don't support MSI AFAIK. That means whatever is going wrong, is happening in the IO SAPIC. > >>> Now, I'm quite convinced that irqbalance could be one of the (major?) >>> cause of instability of the parisc autobuilders. AFAIU, they've >>> decided >>> to disable it on their setup, maybe the situation will improve there. >>> Still, irqbalance is only the messenger, and I'm wondering whether >>> that >>> apparent bug in our IRQ code could also be responsible for other >>> issues >>> we're still having. >> >> Sounds like it. Though the HPMCs are clearly different than the PTE >> issues >> that jda/carlos are seeing. > > True, but I remember Debian staff complaining about random unexplained > hangs, I wouldn't be too surprised if this came into play... Yes, especially given the fact the "hangs" generally means the "machine suddenly stopped responding". cheers, grant -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
