Re: dynticks + iptables almost stops the boot process [was: Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3]

From: Mattia Dongili
Date: Fri Feb 02 2007 - 15:45:01 EST


On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 09:27:14PM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 20:18 +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> > > May I ask you for another test ? Please turn on high resolution timers
> > > and check, if the same strange behaviour is happening.
> >
> > Yep, here we go again. Still seeing long stalls but no negative expires
> > offset.
> > Actually one more test I did is disabling my iptables script and the
> > boot process went fine. The script is just:
>
> Mattia,
>
> I have it halfways reproducible now and I'm working to find the root
> cause. Thanks for providing the info.

Great, I'm obviously available to test any patch :)

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mattia
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