Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Nov 2002 23:40:04 -0500 (EST) | From | Zwane Mwaikambo <> | Subject | Re: NMI handling rework for x86 |
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On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Corey Minyard wrote:
> John Levon suggested I send this to you. It's a cleanup of the NMI > handling to make it into a request/release mechanism (instead of > hard-coding everything into traps.c). It renames "nmi.c" to > "nmi_watchdog.c" (as it should be named) and moves the real NMI handling > code from traps.c to nmi.c. It's been posted and reworked on lkml, and > it seems to have finally met approval. The "cc-ed" people have reviewed > the patch (or at least made helpful suggestions :-).
What interrupt rate have you tested this at? SMP? Adding handlers at runtime? I'm still skeptical on how RCU protects you, but i'm RCU clueless...
Zwane -- function.linuxpower.ca
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