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SubjectRe: 2.5.65-preempt booting on 32way NUMAQ
On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 06:48:33AM -0400, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> Robert i suppose you can add another notch on your erm.. bedpost(?)
> and congratulations to all the kernel developers! It survived some
> local networking stress tests, but there is more fun stuff like tty
> layer to completely obliterate ;)

Wow!

This has had a hard time historically. I'm really glad NUMA-Q's are now
immune (in the sense of correctness) to this config; previously it was
believed that preemption points in printk(linux_banner) would take out
the machine early in boot if preemption was enabled.

Congratulations rml!

If you're booting without issues on these things, you are a _very_ long
way toward being race-free. This is incredibly good news, both for the
preemption support, and for the general stability of the i386 bootstrap.

All that's really left is driver and non-i386 arch coverage if I'm right.


-- wli
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