Re: [patch] voluntary-preempt-2.6.8-rc2-O2

From: Shane Shrybman
Date: Tue Aug 03 2004 - 09:06:51 EST


On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 05:19, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Aug 2004, Shane Shrybman wrote:
>
> > I was unable to boot -O2. It seemed to hang up when it got to the
> > aic7xxx(29160) scsi controller.
>
> does it boot with voluntary-preempt=2 on the boot command line? (or with
> voluntary-preempt=1)?
>

Nope, didn't boot with either voluntary-preempt=1 or 2 on the boot
command line. Booting stopped at the scsi controller again.

It did boot with just acpi=off.

> if it boots this way you can turn it back on runtime by changing
> /proc/sys/kernel/voluntary_preemption back to 3 and turning on IRQ
> threading for each interrupt via /proc/irq/*/threaded.
>
> Ingo
>

Regards,

Shane

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