I have tested these patches on a Nehalem machine with 4 cores and HT. It would be good if folks with larger machines tested too. I pushed the changes to git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkacur/rt-tests.git branch rt-tests-dev In the order they should be applied starting with the first: 97dbb3cebd200a4d45d89d8e264e43b119b2cbcf 9093a5de51964f3a9ab1454a77181fad2d3e7217 2712903a40560378cb61336994258780cfbb83d9 Thanks John Kacur (3): rt-tests: pi_stress: Use a pthread_mutex_t for the global variable shutdown rt-tests: pi_stress: Check whether quiet is set, before taking shutdown_mtx rt-tests: pi_stress: Remove racy state variables that cause watchdog to trigger src/pi_tests/pi_stress.c | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------- 1 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) -- 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