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


On Oct 3, 2006, at 3:21 PM, Maria Butrico wrote:

Jimi, the problem with this approach is that as changes are made to the Xen code, you have no idea if they make the smp situation better or worse. If you introduce a bug only visible with SMP or more likely to happen running MP you don't find out until someone picks up your code and applies the smp patch.


This is exactly the reason why we won't make SMP the default.
I'll try my best not to break it and yes I do use the SMP patch to test bigger commits, but its important for all to realize that the maintainers of XenPPC do _not_ consider SMP stable, its just a fact.
-JX

Jimi Xenidis wrote:

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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