Re: 2.6.21-rc1: known regressions (v2) (part 2)

[Ingo Molnar]

* Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thomas Gleixner napisaÅ(a):
> > Adrian,
> > 
> > On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 23:05 +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >> Subject    : kernel BUG at kernel/time/tick-sched.c:168  (CONFIG_NO_HZ)
> >> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/16/346
> >> Submitter  : Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> Handled-By : Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Status     : problem is being debugged
> > 
> > The BUG_ON() was replaced by a warning printk(). The BUG_ON() exposed a
> > problem with the SMT scheduler. See below.
> > 
> >> Subject    : BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0
> >>              NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 20  (SMT scheduler)
> >> References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/2/20/257
> >> Submitter  : Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@xxxxxxxxx>
> >> Handled-By : Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >>              Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> >> Status     : problem is being debugged
> > 
> > Patch available, not confirmed yet.
> > 
> 
> I can confirm that the bug is fixed (over 20 hours of testing should 
> be enough).

thanks alot! I think this thing was a long-term performance/latency 
regression in HT scheduling as well.

	Ingo
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