Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 19 Apr 2002 06:48:45 +0200 (CEST) | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] migration thread fix |
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On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> > a HT box wouldnt boot without an artificial mdelay(1000) in > > migration_init() - while i havent fully debugged it (given Erich's patch), > > it appeared to be some sort of race between idle thread startup and > > migration init. > > I've got a few of those around, I'll see if I can reproduce it. How many > cpu's did you need to bring it out?
2 physical - but i'd suggest to test Erich's patch instead. I had debugging code in the scheduler which did printks, which slowed down some of the operations in question, such as the startup of the idle thread - which created weird situations. [which might not occur in normal testing, but which are possible nevertheless.]
Ingo
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