From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] New way of storing MCA/INIT logs
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:38:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21809.1204760337@ocs10w> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47CD8142.7050207@bull.net>
Russ Anderson (on Wed, 5 Mar 2008 12:56:29 -0600) wrote:
>On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 02:14:52PM +0100, Zoltan Menyhart wrote:
>> Neither the original code, nor mine can log it before the machine
>> is re-booted / halted.
>> Only the recovered ones play.
>> It is safe to continue after the recovered ones.
>> You need these logs to be alerted and to program the maintenance.
>>
>> Both the original code and mine can "swallow" about 1 recovered
>> event / minute, and tolerate a "burst" of 2 or IA64_MAX_MCA_INIT_BUFS
>> events.
>
>What happens on boot up, when salinfo reads all the old records?
>Does that "burst" of records all get logged.
salinfo on boot up is a serial process, driven from user space. One
cpu at a time, one record of each type at a time. Records of different
types are processed in parallel.
Keith (I wish I had never heard of salinfo) Owens
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-05 23:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-04 17:05 [PATCH] New way of storing MCA/INIT logs Zoltan Menyhart
2008-03-05 0:23 ` Russ Anderson
2008-03-05 13:14 ` Zoltan Menyhart
2008-03-05 16:59 ` Luck, Tony
2008-03-05 18:56 ` Russ Anderson
2008-03-05 23:38 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2008-03-06 10:24 ` Zoltan Menyhart
2008-03-06 13:14 ` Zoltan Menyhart
2008-03-06 17:09 ` Luck, Tony
2008-03-06 17:29 ` Zoltan Menyhart
2008-03-06 17:52 ` Russ Anderson
2008-03-06 21:56 ` Luck, Tony
2008-03-06 22:13 ` Russ Anderson
2008-03-07 12:02 ` Zoltan Menyhart
2008-03-07 16:55 ` Russ Anderson
2008-03-10 9:36 ` Zoltan Menyhart
2008-03-10 20:36 ` Russ Anderson
2008-03-10 21:10 ` Russ Anderson
2008-03-11 14:07 ` Zoltan Menyhart
2008-03-11 14:32 ` Robin Holt
2008-03-11 21:22 ` Russ Anderson
2008-03-12 1:08 ` Keith Owens
2008-03-12 7:42 ` Zoltan Menyhart
2008-04-01 15:18 ` [PATCH] New way of storing MCA/INIT logs - take 2 Zoltan Menyhart
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