RE: [Vacm-develop] IPMI and 2.4 kernels

[Dirk W. <di...@re...>]

Hi,

this is not my observation. i am running it on a couple of
2.4 vacm clients and one server since a while. i see odd
effects, which means, sometimes it's working and sometimes
it's not. but other than that those SMP systems are fine...

	~dirkw

On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, San Mehat wrote:

> Heh. Which is why there is a note indicating the driver should not be
> used with 2.4
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ard van Breemen [mailto:ar...@te...]
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 4:31 AM
> To: San Mehat
> Cc: 'Rob Latham'; vac...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Vacm-develop] IPMI and 2.4 kernels
>
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:27:50AM -0700, San Mehat wrote:
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> Fix that!
> > I believe that driver is not smp safe  and as such using the watchdog
> > functionality can cause spontaneous hardware watchdog resets..
> > undesirable enough? :)
> The biggest undesirable behaviour is that it uses 100%cpu time of one
> cpy in SMP systems. You don't want to have a driver that eats up a
> single
> cpu on a production system.
>
> The cullprit is in the busy-waiting for the data that takes too long.
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