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

Andi Kleen
2008-01-03T13:07:39Z

On Thursday 03 January 2008 11:49:56 Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * 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.

That's done in another patch that hasn't been posted yet.

-Andi