Re: x86_64 Question: Are concurrent IPI requests safe?

From: Tetsuo Handa
Date: Wed May 11 2016 - 10:09:29 EST


Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 10:19:16PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> > [ 180.434659] Hardware name: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform/440BX Desktop Reference Platform, BIOS 6.00 07/31/2013
>
> can you reproduce on real hardware?
>
Unfortunately, I don't have a real hardware to run development kernels.

My Linux environment is limited to 4 CPUs / 1024MB or 2048MB RAM running
as a VMware guest on Windows. Can somebody try KVM environment with
4 CPUs / 1024MB or 2048MB RAM whith partition only plain /dev/sda1
formatted as XFS?