RE: [discuss] Re: [PATCH] Allow all Opteron processors tochangepstate at same time

From: shin, jacob
Date: Thu Jul 13 2006 - 10:39:22 EST


On Thursday, July 13, 2006 9:32 AM Deguara, Joachim wrote:

> parallel sounds fun, but I don't get it. Two machine or trying to go
> online and offline at the same time? Firestorming two busy parallel
> while loops, one turning the core offline and the other online, did
> not bring an oops so I guess this kernel is in the clear in that
> regard.
>
> I can't get it to crash again and I am afraid that it crashed under an
> old devel kernel. After another ~20 hour test with heavy freq changes
> with the tscsync patch

There were several different issues w/ powernow + cpu hotplug in the
past. Good to hear that the latest kernel doesn't oops.. I believe
cpu hotplug is needed for suspend to work..


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