From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: davidm@hpl.hp.com
Cc: davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com, iod00d@hp.com,
ishii.hironobu@jp.fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH, 1/4] readX_check() performance evaluation
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 19:52:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040128195246.47a84498.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16408.30.896895.980121@napali.hpl.hp.com>
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 10:31:58 -0800
David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com> wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 18:41:37 +0100, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> 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"?
e.g. one bit ECC errors in memory are quite common. And with ECC memory
they are not really fatal. Similar with drivers. A lot of drivers do
bus aborts and other things regularly, but there is not necessarily
data corruption.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-28 18:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-28 1:54 [RFC/PATCH, 1/4] readX_check() performance evaluation Hironobu Ishii
2004-01-28 17:20 ` Grant Grundler
2004-01-28 17:41 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-28 18:31 ` David Mosberger
2004-01-28 18:52 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-01-28 19:24 ` David Mosberger
2004-01-28 19:39 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-28 19:48 ` David Mosberger
2004-01-28 20:01 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-28 23:35 ` David Mosberger
2004-02-16 10:19 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-29 8:23 ` Matthias Fouquet-Lapar
2004-01-29 19:28 ` David Mosberger
2004-01-29 20:16 ` Matthias Fouquet-Lapar
2004-01-29 21:09 ` David Mosberger
2004-01-29 22:20 ` Matthias Fouquet-Lapar
2004-01-28 19:09 ` Grant Grundler
2004-01-28 19:17 ` Andi Kleen
2004-01-28 21:14 ` Grant Grundler
2004-01-28 21:39 ` Andi Kleen
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