Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm3 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:14:58 +0200 |
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On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 13:05 +0200, Alexander Nyberg wrote: > [Proper patch now that goes all the way, sorry for spamming] > > Patch below uses RETIRED_UOPS for a more constant rate of NMI sending. > This makes x64 deliver NMI interrupts every fourth second at a constant > rate when going through the local apic. Makes both cpus on my box to get > NMIs at constant rate that it previously did not, there could be long > delays when a CPU was idle.
isn't this dangerous in the light of the mobile cpus that either scale back or stop entirely in idle or lower load situations ?
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