Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8-rc2-L2, preemptable hardirqs | From | Felipe Alfaro Solana <> | Date | Wed, 28 Jul 2004 00:30:40 +0200 |
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On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 18:27 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> BIG WARNING: the hardirq-redirection feature is quite intrusive to > drivers so it's possible that some drivers will break under it. The > changes done to the IDE driver might also endanger stability. Be careful > when applying this patch to production systems. If your system doesnt > boot then please try the voluntary-preempt=2 boot-option to turn off > hardirq redirection.
I've seen an oops on my P4 machine when booting with voluntary- preempt=3, but not with voluntary-preempt<3. I think it's related to the serial controller (IRQ3 and IRQ4). Please, see attached dmesg.
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