Re: [PATCH] [12/20] x86: Use a per cpu timer for correctable machine check checking

Ingo Molnar
2008-01-03T10:50:22Z

* Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:

> Previously the code used a single timer that then used
> smp_call_function to interrupt all CPUs while the original CPU was
> waiting for them.
>
> But it is better / more real time and more power friendly to simply
> run individual timers on each CPU so they all do this independently.
>
> This way no single CPU has to wait for all others.

i think we should unify this code first and provide it on 32-bit as
well.

Ingo