Re: 2.2.20pre1: Problems with SMP

From: Johannes Erdfelt (jerdfelt@valinux.com)
Date: Mon May 07 2001 - 13:02:50 EST


On Mon, May 07, 2001, Shane Wegner <shane@cm.nu> wrote:
> On Mon, May 07, 2001 at 11:36:49AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > Just booted up 2.2.20pre1 and am getting some funny
> > > results. The system boots but is very slow. Every few
> > > seconds I get:
> > > Stuck on TLB IPI wait (CPU#0)
> > >
> > > Booting vanilla 2.2.19 works fine. The machine is an
> > > Intel Pentium III 850MHZ on an Abit VP6 board. If any
> > > further information is needed, let me know.
> >
> > Can you back out the change to io_apic.c and tell me if that fixes it. If so
> > let Johannes Erdfelt and I know.
>
> That does indeed correct the problem. 2.2.20pre1 now works
> as expected.

Hmm, that uses a VIA based chipset. I didn't know they did SMP yet. Does
2.4 work on this system?

JE

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