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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
