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SubjectRe: [RFC] x86, perf: high volume of events produces a flood of unknown NMIs
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:47:51PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
> > Or perhaps we don't care about this because in the end perf can't even
> > capture the data without spitting out a CPU Overload message.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
>
> Hi Don, just a thought -- since pmi masks lvtpc we could read it and check if it's
> masked or no, though I fear it is quite time consuming operation in compare with
> frames :( (hmm, intel spec mentions only p4 and xeon as masking lvtpc)

Been there, tried that. It seems to be masked a large majority of the
time, even when the NMIs don't appear to be back-to-back.

Cheers,
Don


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