Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Jul 2006 17:59:09 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [discuss] Re: [PATCH] Allow all Opteron processors to change pstate at same time |
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> On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 03:56 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 13:06 +0000, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > Can you run two such tests *in parallel*? That seemed to break it > > > > really quickly. > > > parallel sounds fun, but I don't get it. Two machine or trying to > > go > > > online and offline at the same time? Firestorming two busy parallel > > > > Trying to online and offline at the same time. > > > > > while loops, one turning the core offline and the other online, did > > not > > > bring an oops so I guess this kernel is in the clear in that regard. > > > > Better run two tight loops, each doing online; offline. I got reports > > it crashed machines before, but maybe it is solved. > > yeah, that's what I did. Somethings are easier described in bash than in > english. Nothing crashed or oopsed so the green light is there for > online and offline in 2.6.18-rc1 (with my setup).
Okay, I tried hard here, and reproduced some fork failures (and swsusp panic :-), but not oops.
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