Messages in this thread | | | From | (Matthias Urlichs) | Subject | Re: __DEATH__ of SMP | Date | 23 Apr 1997 12:50:48 +0200 |
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"Richard B. Johnson" <root@analogic.com> writes: > > > > Have you tried any of the AIC7XXX experimental patches? > > ftp://ftp.pcnet.com/users/eischen/Linux > > Daniel Eischen is doing a wonderful job. > > > Nope. The current driver seems to work fine unless there is a SCSI > Bus error at which time all bets are off. Since I don't have any > external devices on this machine, I don't get any SCSI Bus errors. > Our main news+cache server (four 4-GB disks) crashed about twice per week with at least one kernel stack overflow or similar Aieee during the hour before the crash. There was no indication at all about any SCSI flakiness.
I fixed that by patching the kernel to use two pages for the kernel stack. No more crashes since. The only remaining problem is that the de4x5 network driver hangs the card when it happens not to get free memory. :-( :-( :-(
An aic7xxx driver that doesn't eat so much stack _will_ be an improvement. Still better would be a release of GCC 2.8.0 that does better stack layout (2.6.x was _much_ better). In fact, did anybody with access to gcc snapshots check this?
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