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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/8] [nmi watchdog] touch_softlockup cleanups and softlockup_tick removal
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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