Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: ACPI: EC: GPE storm detected, transactions will use polling mode | Date | Sun, 16 Nov 2008 13:44:07 +0100 |
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On Sunday, 16 of November 2008, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > Justin P. Mattock wrote: > > Well; reverting: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=06cf7d3c7af902939cd1754abcafb2464060cba8 > > is keeping the system from having a gpe storm > > (for at least four hours now); > > haven't had a chance to drain the battery and see > > the affects from that scenario. > > > > > Justin, by decreasing threshold, we just change how often _detection_ of > the storm fires, not the storm itself.
Yes, I think what happens is that we just detect the interrupt storm with the lower threshold, so the storm occured anyway previously, but it went unnoticed (not necessarily a good thing).
There is nothing to worry about as long as the box works as expected.
Thanks, Rafael
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