You're talking about one of the first 2.5 versions of the patch. It
changed a lot since then, thanks to your feedback, too.
> I still haven't been able to get your scheduler to boot for about
> the last month without crashing the system. Andrew says he has it
> booting somehow on 2.5.44-mm4, so I'll steal his kernel tommorow and
> see how it looks. If the numbers look good for doing boring things
> like kernel compile, SDET, etc, I'm happy.
I thought this problem is well understood! For some reasons independent of
my patch you have to boot your machines with the "notsc" option. This
leaves the cache_decay_ticks variable initialized to zero which my patch
doesn't like. I'm trying to deal with this inside the patch but there is
still a small window when the variable is zero. In my opinion this needs
to be fixed somewhere in arch/i386/kernel/smpboot.c. Booting a machine
with cache_decay_ticks=0 is pure nonsense, as it switches off cache
affinity which you absolutely need! So even if "notsc" is a legal option,
it should be fixed such that it doesn't leave your machine without cache
affinity. That would anyway give you a falsified behavior of the O(1)
scheduler.
Erich
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