On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 12:14 +0200, Carsten Otte wrote:
> > The way how the soft-lockup detection works right now is broken for
> > system that utilize virtual cpus. You could argue that all zSeries
> > systems use virtualized cpu so the feature does not make sense.
> With dedicated PUs on a logical partition, and when running on raw
> iron the feature should work fine afaict. No?

Yes, in that special case it should work. But who is using dedicated PUs
on LPAR? 1% of the installed linux systems? The best thing to do is to
disable the config option, as it is harmful for the majority of the
systems. Heiko already sent a patch.

--
blue skies,
  Martin.

Martin Schwidefsky
Linux for zSeries Development & Services
IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH

"Reality continues to ruin my life." - Calvin.

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