linux-kernel - Re: [stable] Soft lockups since stable kernel upgrade to 2.6.23.8

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Message-ID: <20071120232633.GA23667@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:26:33 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	greg@...ah.com, jeremy@...p.org, gregkh@...e.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org,
	jkohen@...rs.sourceforge.net, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	david@...olicited.net
Subject: Re: [stable] Soft lockups since stable kernel upgrade to 2.6.23.8


* David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:

> > so just to reiterate, to make sure we have the same plans: lets 
> > leave v2.6.22 and earlier kernels alone - and lets strive for the 
> > latest patches and code for v2.6.23 (and v2.6.24, evidently).
> 
> I've validated that those patches make 2.6.23 behave on my Niagara 
> box.

Great and thanks for testing it! Arjan noticed the shortness of the 1 
sec sleep too, my suggestion would be to increase the sleep period to 
~50 seconds and the detection threshold to 60 seconds - that should be 
large enough - instead of complicating the tick code even more.

	Ingo
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