linux-kernel - Re: CFS review

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708211252280.1817@scrub.home>
Date:	Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:54:51 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>,
	Michael Chang <thenewme91@...il.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CFS review

Hi,

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Mike Galbraith wrote:

> I thought this was history.  With your config, I was finally able to
> reproduce the anomaly (only with your proggy though), and Ingo's patch
> does indeed fix it here.
> 
> Freshly reproduced anomaly and patch verification, running 2.6.23-rc3
> with your config, both with and without Ingo's patch reverted:

I did update to 2.6.23-rc3-git1 first, but I ended up reverting the patch, 
as I didn't notice it had been applied already. Sorry about that.
With this patch the underflows are gone, but there are still the 
overflows, so the questions from the last mail still remain.

bye, Roman
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