linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] locking/qspinlock: Improve determinism for x86

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Date:   Wed, 26 Sep 2018 17:38:26 +0200
From:   Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, will.deacon@....com,
        mingo@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, longman@...hat.com,
        andrea.parri@...rulasolutions.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/3] locking/qspinlock: Improve determinism for x86

On 2018-09-26 17:08:42 [+0200], Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Remember that 4.14 took almost 8 hours to fail, so I'd recommend not to
> cheer too much. Let's see what it tells us in 48 hours.

I don't cheer. I merely point out that shuffling the whole atomic code
around did not make a change while applying the three patches did.
The v4.4 kernel did survive for 5 days. Here we might start looking for
the cheer outfit.

> Thanks,
> 
> 	tglx
Sebastian