Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [12/20] x86: Use a per cpu timer for correctable machine check checking | Date | Thu, 3 Jan 2008 13:56:09 +0100 |
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On Thursday 03 January 2008 11:49:56 Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote: > > > Previously the code used a single timer that then used > > smp_call_function to interrupt all CPUs while the original CPU was > > waiting for them. > > > > But it is better / more real time and more power friendly to simply > > run individual timers on each CPU so they all do this independently. > > > > This way no single CPU has to wait for all others. > > i think we should unify this code first and provide it on 32-bit as > well.
That's done in another patch that hasn't been posted yet.
-Andi
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