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DateSat, 28 Jun 2003 07:10:26 -0700
From"Martin J. Bligh" <>
SubjectRe: 2.5.73-mjb2
> Martin J. Bligh said:
>> The patchset contains mainly scalability and NUMA stuff, and anything
>> else that stops things from irritating me. It's meant to be pretty
>> stable,  not so much a testing ground for new stuff.
>> 
>> I'd be very interested in feedback from anyone willing to test on any
>> platform, however large or small.
>> 
>> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mbligh/2.5.73/patch-2.5.73-mjb2.bz2
>> 
> 
> Are you interested in behaviour of this kernel on uniprocessor machines ?

Yup.

> I tested 2.5.72-mjb2 but it was full of oopses and crashes on my Duron
> so I thought this patch is only for NUMA stuff.

Nope, it should work with any machine  - you got the oopses?

If you have an old distro with glibc < 2.3.1, Bill thinks the upside_down
trick doesn't work because of some invalid assumptions glibc is making.
If that's the case, could you check that 2.5.73-mjb1 works OK?

Thanks,

M.

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