Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 3 Jan 2008 11:49:56 +0100 | | From | Ingo Molnar <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [12/20] x86: Use a per cpu timer for correctable machine check checking | |
* 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.
Ingo
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