number of CPUs and IPI panic

[Stephan Uphoff]

On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 09:22, Stephan Uphoff wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 07:33, Stephan Uphoff wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 21:11, Stephan Uphoff wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 04:11, Nik Azim Azam wrote:
> > > > the system still panics with the same message with the
> > > > provided patch. please advise me what should i do to
> > > > get more information out of this panic.
> > > > 
> > > > thanks,
> > > > nik.
> > > 
> > > Could you try the attached patch?
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > 	Stephan
> > > 
> > > ______________________________________________________________________
> > There is a bug in my patch that basically disables AST IPIs :-(.
> > ( Pretty harmless - buildworld runs without a hitch)
> > I will send a new patch later today.
> > 
> > 	Stephan
> 
> Uhhh .. caught a virus and need to recover first.
> My last patch was so ridiculously broken that I decided not to touch any
> code for the next few days.
> 
> 	Stephan
> 

OK - lets try this again.
The attached patch should prevent blocking on redundant IPIs caused by
the apic not being able to queue the request.
If this does not work we will have to instrument the code.

	Stephan