Re: [Xen-devel] Re: blocking Xen 3.X production use: soft lockup bugs

[Steve Traugott <stevegt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 01:59:20AM +0100, Ian Pratt wrote:
> > > Have you tried using -unstable and hence xen's new scheduler? This
> is
> > > less likely to provoke soft lockup false alarms.
> > 
> > Haven't tried unstable yet, since this is for the production
> > infrastructure for my family's business; am in the process of
> > rebuilding with testing changeset 9762 though.  (is that really tip?
> > hg log says Jun 29th for that changeset, even after a pull...)
> 
> There have been no requests to back port patches since then. 
> 
> If you can, its really worth trying -unstable. Any changeset from over
> last weekend should be just fine.

Ian, on your advice I skipped my -testing 9762 build and went straight
to -unstable 10868.  I can only saw *wow*!  Night and day difference
between 9732 and 10868.  See my message as of a few minutes ago for
the details, but at this point I'm considering taking 10868 into
production.  

I might want -unstable anyway; I'm starting to get to the point where
I can chase that blktap/AFS idea we were discussing with Andrew in
late 2004 - early 2005.  

Steve
-- 
Stephen G. Traugott  (KG6HDQ)
UNIX/Linux Infrastructure Architect, TerraLuna LLC
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