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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Jiang, Yunhong" <yunhong.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tweak memory error correction field in the SMBIOS data
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:45:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B0E7885.2000104@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E2263E4A5B2284449EEBD0AAB751098418E5742879@PDSMSX501.ccr.corp.intel.com>

On 11/26/2009 02:21 AM, Jiang, Yunhong wrote:
> When the host detected 1 bit memory error, it may raises #MCE

Does MCE distinguish single- or multi-bit errors?  Multi-bit ECC makes 
errors less likely, not impossible.

I know it's not optimal, I just don't think it's worth the effort. 
Besides it could become wrong anyway after migration.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-26 12:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-24 18:14 [PATCH] tweak memory error correction field in the SMBIOS data Paolo Bonzini
2009-11-25  3:06 ` Jiang, Yunhong
2009-11-25  9:27   ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-11-25 15:00     ` Jiang, Yunhong
2009-11-25 15:18       ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-11-26  1:21         ` Jiang, Yunhong
2009-11-26 12:45           ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2009-11-27  1:50             ` Jiang, Yunhong
2009-11-25 10:27 ` Andi Kleen

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