On Wednesday 13 June 2007 05:47:16 Steven Rostedt wrote: > This patch temporarily binds the hardirq thread on the CPU that it runs > the softirqs on. With this patch I have not seen my network hang. I ran > it over night, doing compiles and such, and it seems fine. I would be > able to cause the hang with various loads within a minute, now I can't > cause it after several minutes. > > I'm assuming that this fix may fix other bugs too. > I ran 2.6.21-rt10 + this patch with kernbench and then loops building a kernel (which would previously rapidly exhaust memory). It successfully built 400 kernels with "make -j 32" on an 8 opteron machine with 8 GB of RAM and has so far completed 25 "make -j" on the same system. Looks like a winner to me so far. Thanks, -- Darren Hart IBM Linux Technology Center Realtime Linux Team - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
