Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 May 2002 16:05:48 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Randy.Dunlap" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] percpu updates |
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On Wed, 1 May 2002, Brian Gerst wrote:
| Andrew Morton wrote: | > Brian Gerst wrote: | > | >>These patches convert some of the existing arrays based on NR_CPUS to | >>use the new per cpu code. | >> | > When I did this a couple of weeks back it failed in | > mysterious ways and I ended up parking it. Failure | > symptoms included negative numbers being reported in | > /proc/meminfo for "Locked" and "Dirty". | > | > How well has this been tested? (If the answer | > is "not very" then please wait until I've tested | > it out...) | | Well, the answer is not very. I don't have an SMP machine to do | thorough testing on. The best I can do is boot an SMP kernel on a UP | machine. I did check the disassembly of vmlinux, and it looked like it | would work as advertised.
uh, do you know where you could find/use some SMP machines, gratis ? maybe OSDL ? hint hint.
(of course, you could just let akpm do it on his smp system, as he suggested)
-- ~Randy
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