On Sat, 2005-03-19 at 20:16 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > the biggest change in this patch is the merge of Paul E. McKenney's > preemptable RCU code. The new RCU code is active on PREEMPT_RT. While it > is still quite experimental at this stage, it allowed the removal of > locking cruft (mainly in the networking code), so it could solve some of > the longstanding netfilter/networking deadlocks/crashes reported by a > number of people. Be careful nevertheless.
With PREEMPT_RT my machine deadlocked within 20 minutes of boot. "apt-get dist-upgrade" seemed to trigger the crash. I did not see any Oops unfortunately. Lee - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
