Subject: Re: Single-user reached on multiprocessor Alpha kernel
To: None <thorpej@zembu.com, tech-smp@netbsd.org>
From: Alistair Crooks <AlistairCrooks@excite.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 11/21/2000 03:29:53
Jason,
Great news!
Much kudos to you and Bill.
Thanks,
Al
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 13:01:05 -0800, thorpej@zembu.com wrote:
> Thanks to Bill Sommerfeld who found a fatal bug in my CPU spinup
> trampoline, we have gotten to single-user mode on a multiprocessor
> Alpha running a multiprocessor kernel which runs both kernel and
> user code on the secondary CPUs.
>
> Now, the machine hung when we tried to do anything interesting (like
> "fsck" :-), but once again, Bill came to the rescue and found the
> deadlock while I was on my way to work. I've committed a fix for
> the deadlock, and will test it tonight when I get home. It's likely
> we'll have multi-user tonight.
>
> --
> -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
--
Alistair Crooks (agc@pkgsrc.org)
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