On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Justin Piszcz wrote: > [] > > Is this a bug that can or will be fixed or should I disable pre-emption on > > critical and/or server machines? > > Disabling pre-emption on critical and/or server machines seems to be a good > idea in the first place. IMHO anyway.. ;) > > /mjt > So for a server system, the following options should be as follows: Preemption Model (No Forced Preemption (Server)) ---> [ ] Preempt The Big Kernel Lock Also, my mobo has HPET timer support in the BIOS, is there any reason to use this on a server? I do run X on it via the Intel 965 chipset video. So bottom line is make sure not to use preemption on servers or else you will get weird spinlock/deadlocks on RAID devices--GOOD To know! Thanks! Justin. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
