Re: 2.6.23-rc9-rt1

2007-10-03 Thread Clark Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steven Rostedt wrote: grmbl grmbl!!! We are missing a match somewhere. Most likely in the suspend or resume code. It's expected that if a CPU is idle with no ticks then the dynticks_progress_counter is even, otherwise it is odd. This check

[RFC PATCH] RCU preemption priority boosting

2007-10-03 Thread Steven Rostedt
** RFC not for inclusion ** Although this patch is against the -rt tree, it is also applicable to mainline after Paul's RCU preempt patches make it in. This patch adds RCU preemption boosting to RCU readers that were preempted (or sleep due to spin_locks in -rt). The approach I took is similar

Re: 2.6.23-rc9-rt1

2007-10-03 Thread Steven Rostedt
-- On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Clark Williams wrote: I could put a hack in that fixes the issue when detected, and still prints out a warning. I'll do that for now, until we find the problem area. I think the first warning probably had the want that corrupted us, and then we got flooded with