PLEASE TEST: IPI deadlock avoidance patch

[Daniel Eriksson]

Craig Boston wrote:

> Just a follow-up to my off-list message and another data point, with
> this patch I no longer get deadlocks, however I now get random data
> corruption.

Me too!

I've observed very strange data corruption on a filesystem exported via
Samba from a dual P3/700 running with the IPI deadlock patch. About 10% is
all files saved to the share while I had SMP enabled seems to be corrupt in
one way or another.

/Daniel Eriksson