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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, ishii.hironobu@jp.fujitsu.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH, 2/4] readX_check() performance evaluation
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 20:19:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040128201922.2dc7bec7.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040128182003.GL11844@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 18:20:03 +0000
Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> wrote:


> If there are, Linus' interface is probably the best one.  If not, we could
> simply have readX_check() / writeX_check() call dev->driver->unregister()
> if they notice an error has occurred and then the driver doesn't even
> need to call read_pcix_errors().

It just won't really work for platforms with inexact MCEs for IO errors.
And even for those with exact MCEs it would probably be a nightmare
to implement (writing MCE handlers is extremly hard because you cannot
rely on any locking guarantees - even a printk can randomly deadlock)

For those the per pci_dev callback is the only realistic way.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-28 19:19 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 [this message]
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
2004-01-28 22:15                   ` David S. Miller
2004-01-28  3:09 ` Matthew Wilcox

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