SMP users needed to test patch

[Stathis Kamperis]

2009/11/4 Saifi Khan <saifi.khan at datasynergy.org>:
> On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Stathis Kamperis wrote:
>
>>
>> Did you by any chance try without my patch and SMP/APIC set in your
>> kernel configuration file ?
>>
>>
>
> Commented out the following option and 'recompiled' the kernel.
>
> ### options APIC_IO
>
> Did not see any of the 'livelock' notifications.

Alright, thanks. I suppose that those livelock events are irrelevant
to my work then.

>
> So, i ventured out and cloned in the 'pcca-test'.
>
> On running 'make' in the mqueue.h/
>
>> make
> gcc -Wall -W -Wformat-nonliteral -Wcast-align -Wpointer-arith  -Wbad-function-cast -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes  -Wmissing-declarations -Winline -Wundef -Wnested-externs -Wcast-qual  -Wshadow -Wwrite-strings -Wno-unused-parameter -Wfloat-equal  -Wswitch -Wbad-function-cast -g -lrt t_mq_ambig.c -o t_mq_ambig
> /usr/libexec/binutils217/elf/ld: cannot find -lrt
> *** Error code 1
>
> Stop in /home/saifi/dragonflybsd/pcca-tests/mqueue.h.
>>

Oh, you must be running 2.4.x, right? The librt has been born in 2.5.x :)
So there isn't much you can do.

> thanks
> Saifi.
No, I thank you.


Best regards,
Stathis Kamperis