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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nmi_watchdog=2 and P4-HT
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 22:32:35 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040303223235.177685dd.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040304072630.GB683@zaniah>

Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>
> 
>  What do you think about the feature "the performance doesn't increment
>  counter in hlt mode".

That sounds OK.  If the CPU halts with local interrupts disabled (is this
possible?) then I assume it'll never come back.  But this possibility isn't
worth worrying about, surely.

Can we scale the performance counter multiplier down a bit?  1000 NMIs per
second sounds excessive.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-04  6:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-04  5:42 [PATCH] nmi_watchdog=2 and P4-HT Philippe Elie
2004-03-04  5:30 ` Andrew Morton
2004-03-04  7:26   ` Philippe Elie
2004-03-04  6:32     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-03-04  8:20       ` Philippe Elie
2004-03-05  5:42       ` [PATCH] set nmi_hz to 1 with nmi_watchdog=2 and SMP Philippe Elie
2004-03-04  8:04 ` [PATCH] nmi_watchdog=2 and P4-HT Philippe Elie

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