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SubjectRe: 2.2.13pre15 SMP+IDE test summary

On Wed, 6 Oct 1999 thx@rivalnet.de wrote:

> One more pre15 test:
> 2.2.13pre15 with Unified IDE 2.2.13pre14-19991003 (two rejects in ide.c, one ok, one probably harmless):
> (5) dual P3 machine: NULL deref after 6 hours (i.e. this pre15 kernel survived longest)

is it correct that this failing kernel didnt have the RAID patch applied?

> I can think of these possible reasons for the SMP problems:
>
> (A) SMP race(s) in IDE driver in original 2.2.13pre15
> (B) SMP-deadlock in raid-2.2.11-patch

(B) is quite unlikely if you do not have it applied and the box still
crashes? My understanding is that others who had IDE+SMP problems could
reproduce it without RAID as well. (RAID0 stresses the hardware harder)

-- mingo


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