Re: [Xenomai] perf nmi on x86

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>]

On 2015-08-24 20:14, Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> Hi Jan,
> 
> running Xenomai on an x86 machine, I noticed that the perf NMI was
> ticking. It seems CONFIG_PERF can not be disabled in the kernel
> configuration.
> 
> So, the first question is: 
> is there a way of disabling the NMI ?
> second question is: 
> if not, what do we do about it? 
> 
> I mean, on the one hand, disabling the NMI is probably mandatory on
> a system where latency matters, but on the other hand, some users
> may want it enabled and do not care for the additional latency.

Does "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog" change the picture? It did
so for me on a distro kernel, though re-enabling it again didn't make
the PMIs reappear.

Jan

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