* Rui Nuno Capela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All my VP trials have been conducted with ALL those CONFIG_ options > turned ON. I've been just tweaking on softirq-preempt and > hardirq-preempt boot prompt arguments. However tweaking these only > affects the ability for running jackd -R without instant lockup. > Again, the only viable combination has been softirq-preempt=0 and > hardirq-preempt=0. > > Rest assured that's when I unset CONFIG_SCHED_SMT things get pretty > much better.
ok, some progress: managed to reproduce the jackd instant lockup on my P4 HT SMP box. (hacked my kernel to ignore the second CPU's ACPI entries so that i got a single-physical-CPU HT setup. The box has the same i8x0 sound stuff as your box.) not much debug info yet, but it's not a classic hard lockup. It rather seems to be jackd (or the kernel) looping indefinitely. Keyboard doesnt work because it's threaded by default ... more later. Ingo