Re: Linux-2.1.95.. (Works!!! :)

F Harvell (fharvell@fts.net)
Sat, 11 Apr 1998 23:12:28 -0300

On Fri, 10 Apr 1998 11:44:53 PDT, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> ...
> The conceptually big one is the SMP-safe disk driver change: it's not a
> very big patch, but it's fairly subtle. And it still requires help from
> the disk drivers themselves, although all of them should be safe in UP,
> and I made sure the BusLogic and the NCR driver are safe on SMP.
> ...

Well, I have had success with 2.1.95. With kernels 2.1.85-94, I
was able to reproduce an "uninterruptable sleep" stuck process fairly
quickly and readily. With the wonderful new 2.1.95 patches, I have
_not_ been able to recreate a problem.

For what it's worth, my config is Tyan 1668D, Dual PPro 150,
Buslogic 958 with 2x8.7GB drives holding 10 md striped partitions,
Buslogic 946 with SCSI tape and CDROM, DEC Tulip ethernet card, and
dual millennium video cards.

Thanks for all the great work!!!

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