Re: [discuss] Re: [PATCH] Allow all Opteron processors to change pstate at same time

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Jul 20 2006 - 11:57:30 EST


> On Sun, 2006-07-16 at 03:56 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 13:06 +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > Can you run two such tests *in parallel*? That seemed to break it
> > > > really quickly.
> > > 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
> >
> > Trying to online and offline at the same time.
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Better run two tight loops, each doing online; offline. I got reports
> > it crashed machines before, but maybe it is solved.
>
> yeah, that's what I did. Somethings are easier described in bash than in
> english. Nothing crashed or oopsed so the green light is there for
> online and offline in 2.6.18-rc1 (with my setup).

Okay, I tried hard here, and reproduced some fork failures (and swsusp
panic :-), but not oops.

Pavel
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Thanks, Sharp!
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