Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 22 Nov 2002 11:32:34 -0800 | | From | Matthew Dobson <> | | Subject | Re: 2.5.48 hangs during boot |
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William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 05:58:37PM -0800, Matthew Dobson wrote: > >>Hello all, >> 2.5.48 + Bill/Martin's noearlyirq patch hangs on boot on our NUMA-Q >>machines. It boots normally up to >>TCP: Hash tables configured (established 524288 bind 65536) >>NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. >>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. >>Freeing unused kernel memory: 268k freed >>Then it *VERY* slowly proceeds to output a few more lines before hanging >>completely. The lines come out one at a time, with large time delays >>between each line. The last bit of output I get is the enabling swap line. >>The -mm1 patch fixes this problem, and I'm in the process of determining >>exactly what fixes it. Any input/ideas would be greatly appreciated. >>Thanks! >>-Matt > > > get the axboe/akpm fixes for the elevator deadlock and/or an intermediate > bk tree. This is an io scheduling issue. > > > Bill
Yep.. the axboe-scsi patch from the mm1 tree fixes our problem...
Linus, you'll make a bunch of NUMA-Q developers (and likely many other people) really happy if you add that patch to the mainline.
Cheers!
-Matt
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