Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 May 2010 19:53:13 +0400 | From | Cyrill Gorcunov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/8] [nmi watchdog] touch_softlockup cleanups and softlockup_tick removal |
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On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 05:50:15PM -0400, Don Zickus wrote: ... > > Guys, could you please spend a few minutes and enlighten me a bit? > > Does all this series mean that we eventually will drop nmi-watchdog > > via io-apic (read via pic) as only the transition to perf complete? > > > > I recall someone said about to stop using io-apic, but just to be sure. > > Right, this code sits on top of the perf subsystem which uses lapic. > Eventually, the old nmi watchdog code will disappear along with the > support for io-apic. > > Cheers, > Don >
Thanks for explanation, Don! So I assume (?) that io-apic nmi-watchdog is going to be dropped due to obsolescense of this mode, right?
-- Cyrill
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