From: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: dipankar@gamebox.net, cminyard@mvista.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NMI request/release
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:08:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021022190818.GA84745@compsoc.man.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DB59923.9050002@mvista.com>
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 01:29:55PM -0500, Corey Minyard wrote:
> I would vote against using it for profiling; profiling has it's own
> special fast-path, anyway.
But it would be good (less code, simpler, and even possibly for keeping
NMI watchdog ticking when oprofile is running) if we could merge the two
cases.
> The NMI watchdog only gets hit once every
> minute or so, it seems, so that seems suitable for this.
It can easily be much more frequent than that (though you could argue
this is a mis-setup).
> I've looked at the RCU code a little more, and I think I understand it
> better. I think your scenario will work, if it's true that it won't be
> called until all CPUs have done what you say. I'll look at it a little
> more.
Thanks for looking into this ...
regards
john
--
"This is mindless pedantism up with which I will not put."
- Donald Knuth on Pascal's lack of default: case statement
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-22 19:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-22 1:32 [PATCH] NMI request/release Corey Minyard
2002-10-22 2:10 ` John Levon
2002-10-22 2:32 ` Corey Minyard
2002-10-22 2:53 ` John Levon
2002-10-22 13:02 ` Corey Minyard
2002-10-22 15:09 ` John Levon
2002-10-22 16:03 ` Corey Minyard
2002-10-22 17:23 ` Robert Love
2002-10-22 18:08 ` Corey Minyard
2002-10-22 18:16 ` Robert Love
2002-10-22 20:04 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-22 17:53 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-22 18:05 ` Corey Minyard
2002-10-22 18:08 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-22 18:29 ` Corey Minyard
2002-10-22 19:08 ` John Levon [this message]
2002-10-22 21:36 ` [PATCH] NMI request/release, version 3 Corey Minyard
2002-10-23 17:33 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-23 18:03 ` Corey Minyard
2002-10-23 18:57 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-23 20:14 ` [PATCH] NMI request/release, version 4 Corey Minyard
2002-10-23 20:50 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-23 21:53 ` Corey Minyard
2002-10-24 7:41 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-24 13:08 ` Corey Minyard
2002-10-24 7:50 ` Dipankar Sarma
2002-10-24 13:05 ` Corey Minyard
2002-10-24 13:28 ` [PATCH] NMI request/release, version 5 - I think this one's ready Corey Minyard
2002-10-24 14:46 ` John Levon
2002-10-24 15:36 ` Corey Minyard
2002-10-24 17:18 ` John Levon
2002-10-24 17:43 ` Corey Minyard
2002-10-24 18:04 ` John Levon
2002-10-24 18:32 ` Corey Minyard
2002-10-24 18:47 ` John Levon
2002-10-24 20:03 ` Corey Minyard
2002-10-24 20:29 ` John Levon
2002-10-25 1:22 ` [PATCH] NMI request/release, version 6 - "Well I thought the last one was ready" Corey Minyard
2002-10-25 1:39 ` John Levon
2002-10-25 1:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-25 2:01 ` [PATCH] NMI request/release, version 7 - minor cleanups Corey Minyard
2002-10-25 13:26 ` [PATCH] NMI request/release, version 8 Corey Minyard
2002-10-22 12:23 ` [PATCH] NMI request/release Suparna Bhattacharya
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