Re: [PATCH 0/3] sched: newidle and RT wake-buddy fixes

From: Gregory Haskins
Date: Tue Jul 08 2008 - 12:53:12 EST


Hi Ingo,

>>> On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 11:12 AM, in message <20080703151209.GA17059@xxxxxxx>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> * Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> > I may have found the issue: It looks like the hunk that initially
>> > disables interrupts in load_balance_newidle() was inadvertently
>> > applied to load_balance() instead during the merge to linux-tip. If
>> > you fold the following patch into my original patch, it should set
>> > things right again.
>>
>> ah, sorry - indeed! I've reactivated your patch and i'm testing it
>> now.
>
> -tip testing found that it still hangs at:

I was not able to reproduce the hang by taking sched/devel/HEAD, my patch, and your
config (or any config for that matter). We will have to back-burner this patch for now
until I can think of a way to figure out what is wrong here. Sorry for the troubles.

-Greg



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