Re: lowlatency-2.2.14-B1 + 2.2.14aa7 fixes crash, but...

From: Ingo Molnar (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Date: Tue Feb 22 2000 - 14:01:34 EST


On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> ># cat /proc/version
> >Linux version 2.2.14aa7 (root@vmebox) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #6 Tue Feb 22
> >09:44:52 EST 2000
>
> I'd like to specify for readers that 2.2.14aa7 is rock solid, it's
> lowlatency that's buggy thus no worry to run 2.2.14aa7.

lowlatency has the property to trigger races/bugs virtually invisible
otherwise. This happened before. So i'd say it's "likely to be a bug in
the lowlatency patch, but we simply do not know for sure, yet.".

-- mingo

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