Re: inode_unused list corruption in 2.4.26 - spin_lock problem?

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:54:29AM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 11:27:41PM -0700, Chris Caputo wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > > Changing the affinity writes new values to the IOAPIC registers, I can't see
> > > how that could interfere with the atomicity of a spinlock operation. I dont
> > > understand why you think irqbalance could affect anything.
> > 
> > Because when I stop running irqbalance the crashes no longer happen.
> 
> what is the irq distribution when you do that?
> Can you run irqbalance for a bit to make sure there's a static distribution
> of irq's and then disable it and see if it survives ?

Chris, Yes I'm also running irqbalance. 

Arjan, what is an easy way for me to make irqbalance change the affinity
as crazy on the SMP 8way box, just for a test?

TIA


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