Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Mar 2004 22:32:35 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] nmi_watchdog=2 and P4-HT |
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Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > > > What do you think about the feature "the performance doesn't increment > counter in hlt mode".
That sounds OK. If the CPU halts with local interrupts disabled (is this possible?) then I assume it'll never come back. But this possibility isn't worth worrying about, surely.
Can we scale the performance counter multiplier down a bit? 1000 NMIs per second sounds excessive. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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