From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 18:31:58 +0000 Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH, 1/4] readX_check() performance evaluation Message-Id: <16408.30.896895.980121@napali.hpl.hp.com> List-Id: References: <00a201c3e541$c0e7d680$2987110a@lsd.css.fujitsu.com> <20040128172004.GB5494@cup.hp.com> <20040128184137.616b6425.ak@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20040128184137.616b6425.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Andi Kleen Cc: Grant Grundler , ishii.hironobu@jp.fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 18:41:37 +0100, Andi Kleen said: Andi> Also in my experience from AMD64 which originally was a bit Andi> aggressive on enabling MCEs: enabling MCEs increases your Andi> kernel support load a lot. Andi> Many people have slightly buggy systems which still happen to Andi> work mostly. If you report every problem you as kernel Andi> maintainer will be flooded with reports about things you can Andi> nothing to do about. I find this comment interesting. Can you elaborate what you mean by "slightly buggy systems"? --david