general problem -> Re: Fedora 16 and the 3.3.1-3 kernel

[Josh Boyer]

On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Chris Murphy <lists at colorremedies.com> wrote:
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> On Apr 22, 2012, at 5:10 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
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>> no 3.3.1 is the current one, 3.3.2 is current
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>> but the whole 3.3 line until now elaborates on the same problem
>> not at each boot, mostly only slower but terrible at all
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>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=806548
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805317
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>> i post a copy to the devel-list
>> maybe someone cosiders "CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=n" because
>> this is the change in 3.3 and seems to be the root cause
>> of all this troubles
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>> my first bug report is now more than a month old and
>> there are built one kernel after the next with the
>> same problem
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> http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/RCU_FAST_NO_HZ.html
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> The description suggests it may not be suitable as default for a distro issued kernel. Maybe ask about it on the kernel list?

We're well aware of it.  Upstream is working through the issue.  It
isn't a wide-spread issue from what we've seen, but we did discuss
disabling the option.

josh