Re: [XenPPC] Re: Automated reliability report for SMP patch on JS2x

[Jimi Xenidis <jimix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 3, 2006, at 12:25 PM, Maria Butrico wrote:

> What's really interesting to me about this is that the invocation  
> of the
> icache invalidation did not go in till later.
But it did include the I/D cache flush of text.
The i-cache invalidate you speak requires the running of DomUs

> So if anything we could find
> this to be even more reliable one the other changes are also picked  
> up.
not much has happened that would effect boot and ssh to dom0

> I missed this:  what is transient?
>
> I would like to suggest that the SMP patch be applied to the base,  
> and that
> in those case where we known that SMP fails, like on maples,  we  
> use the
> nosmp option.
I'm still not prepared to take the SMP patch, the I-Cache invalidate  
fix has improved the situation on maple, but not enough to convince  
me that there are no more troubles waiting to pounce.
-JX


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