SMP

Richard B. Johnson (root@analogic.com)
Mon, 17 Feb 1997 09:11:47 -0500 (EST)


I installed a dual-Pentium 166 MHz TYN TOMCAT (Intel Chipset) Mother-Board
this weekend on one of my machines.

It seems to work fine. However, If I enable SMP, rebuild the kernel and
reboot.

Feb 17 08:24:18 quark kernel: klogd 1.3-0, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Feb 17 08:24:19 quark kernel: Loaded 5030 symbols from /System.map.
Feb 17 08:24:19 quark kernel: Symbols match kernel version.
Feb 17 08:24:19 quark kernel: Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.1
Feb 17 08:24:19 quark kernel: Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
Feb 17 08:24:19 quark kernel: OEM ID: OEM00000 Product ID: PROD00000000
APIC at: 0xFEE00000
[SNIP]
Feb 17 08:24:19 quark kernel: Processor #0 Pentium(tm) APIC version 17
Feb 17 08:24:19 quark kernel: Processor #1 Pentium(tm) APIC version 17
Feb 17 08:24:19 quark kernel: Total of 2 processors activated (132.71
BogoMIPS).

The following problems occur:

o Hangs on "setserial"... comment that out on startup.

o The network daemons die with problems with select().
Feb 17 08:28:07 quark portmap[52]: svc_run: - select failed: Unknown
error 514
Feb 17 08:28:07 quark portmap[52]: run_svc returned unexpectedly
Feb 17 08:29:41 quark inetd[54]: select: Unknown error 514

o Some network daemons die with simple socket() function calls
such as accept():

Feb 17 08:24:31 quark sendmail[79]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): getrequests:
accept: Error 512

I understand that this is "experimental". Is there anyone working on
this mode and, do they have anything that they want me to try?

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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Richard B. Johnson
Project Engineer
Analogic Corporation
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Penguin : Linux version 2.1.26 on an i586 machine (66.15 BogoMips).
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