From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Keith Owens Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:38:57 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] New way of storing MCA/INIT logs Message-Id: <21809.1204760337@ocs10w> List-Id: References: <47CD8142.7050207@bull.net> In-Reply-To: <47CD8142.7050207@bull.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org 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