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From: Hironobu Ishii <ishii.hironobu@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: willy@debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH, 2/4] readX_check() performance evaluation
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 21:24:52 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <00ad01c3e662$e893ce10$2987110a@lsd.css.fujitsu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.58.0401281458000.28145@home.osdl.org


From: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de>
Cc: <willy@debian.org>; <ishii.hironobu@jp.fujitsu.com>; <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>; <linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 7:59 AM
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH, 2/4] readX_check() performance evaluation


> 
> 
> On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > Doing a status read from the device should do it (just read the config 
> > > space, for example).
> > 
> > The device is just not known. iirc you only get a bit in the bridge, which
> > leaves a wide choice.
> 
> read_pcix_error() _does_ know the device. The driver tells it.
> 
> Remember: none of this should be done at machine check time. 
> 
> Linus

Thank you for a lot of comments.
I prefer Linus's I/F than callback(exception) I/F,
because I can recover from intermittent errors.

I'd need time to consider how to map these I/F onto ia64 platform.
Later, I will post the result.

Thank you.
Hironobu Ishii


  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-29 12:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-28  1:54 [RFC/PATCH, 2/4] readX_check() performance evaluation Hironobu Ishii
2004-01-28  2:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-28  4:44   ` Paul Mackerras
2004-01-28  8:58   ` Russell King
2004-01-28 16:15     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-28 17:01     ` Grant Grundler
2004-01-28 18:20   ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-01-28 19:19     ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-28 19:33     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-28 19:40       ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-28 20:06         ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-28 20:15           ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-28 20:19             ` [RFC/PATCH, 2/4] readX_check() performance evaluation II Andi Kleen
2004-01-28 20:28             ` [RFC/PATCH, 2/4] readX_check() performance evaluation Linus Torvalds
2004-01-28 20:30               ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-28 21:09               ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-28 21:43                 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-28 21:52                   ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-28 22:21                     ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-28 22:39                       ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-28 22:59                         ` Linus Torvalds
2004-01-29 12:24                           ` Hironobu Ishii [this message]
2004-01-28 22:15                   ` David S. Miller
2004-01-28  3:09 ` Matthew Wilcox

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