* Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> wrote:

quoted text
> On 12/08/2007 09:39 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > * Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> Unfortunately no change here.
> > 
> > could you try to revert this change:
> > 
> > -int softlockup_thresh = 10;
> > +int softlockup_thresh = 60;
> > 
> > i.e. change the value of softlockup_thresh back to 10. You should be 
> > able to tweak this runtime as well, without patching the kernel:
> > 
> >   echo 10 > /proc/sys/kernel/softlockup_thresh
> 
> What should have this changed? I can't see any difference.

it changes the wakeup frequency of the softlockup thread.

i'm wondering why it had no effect now - the new code is in essence a 
NOP over what we had. Could you send me your current (modified) 
kernel/softlockup.c code?

	Ingo
--
unsubscribe notice
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/