Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:47:09 -0500 | From | "K.R. Foley" <> | Subject | Re: Real-Time Preemption, -RT-2.6.12-final-V0.7.50-24 |
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Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com> wrote: > > >>I observed a situation on a dual xeon where IOAPIC_POSTFLUSH , if on, >>would actually cause spurious interrupts. It was odd cause it's >>suppose to stop them .. If there was a lot of interrupt traffic on one >>IRQ , it would cause interrupt traffic on another IRQ. This would >>result in "nobody cared" messages , and the storming IRQ line would >>get shutdown. >> >>This would only happen in PREEMPT_RT . > > > does it happen with the latest kernel too? There were a couple of things > broken in the IOAPIC code in various earlier versions. > > Ingo
Is this why I have been able to boot the latest versions without the noapic option (and without noticeable keyboard repeat problems) or has it just been dumb luck?
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