On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:
> Hi
> I'm not quite sure how to describe this. I have a 3 Processor
> Pentium 133 system which has been oopsing reliably (i have over 5 of
> these oopses). What appears to be the problem is that the current memory
> barrier in smp_call_function is a simple gcc anti optimisation barrier, we
> really need a memory barrier there so that the other cpu's get the right
> value when they get IPI'd immediately afterwards. The system was going
> down reliably under my test load in under 5minutes, i have run with this
> patch for;
>
> 02:11:24 up 45 min, 5 users, load average: 175.21, 174.89, 160.77
11:00:31 up 8:29, 5 users, load average: 2.06, 2.28, 2.33
And still going strong, it finally even completed the dbench 128 run
(first time since 2.5.66 got released).
Linus please apply.
Zwane
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