linux-kernel - Re: Status on CPU hotplug issues

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Message-ID: <20061009074209.GB27474@osdl.org>
Date:	Mon, 9 Oct 2006 00:42:09 -0700
From:	Bryce Harrington <bryce@...l.org>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, vatsa@...ibm.com, torvalds@...l.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, shaohua.li@...el.com,
	hotplug_sig@...l.org, lhcs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Status on CPU hotplug issues

On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 09:13:50PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > So... patch-2.6.18-git4 failed to boot on all architectures? I'm
> > > seeing very little green fields there... actually I only see two green
> > > fields in whole table.
> > 
> > No, it failed to build due to a patching issue that has since been fixed
> > (I can rerun those older runs if there is interest.)
> 
> Reruning few of them and deleting rest from table would be nice.

I've requeued a few.  The runs will auto-expunge from the results in a
week or two.

> > > > iirc Pavel did some testing a month or two ago and was seeing userspace
> > > > misbehaviour?
> > > 
> > > Pavel did some testing (like two threads trying to plug/unplug cpus at
> > > the same time), and seen machines dying real fast; but that was fixed,
> > > IIRC, and I did not really torture it after that.
> > 
> > If this test is available, I could include it in my test runs if you
> > think it would be worth tracking.
> 
> Is shell script acceptable form of a test?

Yes.  In fact all the tests are shell scripts so far.

Bryce
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