Re: [RFC 1/3] Unified NMI delayed call mechanism

Andi Kleen
2010-06-19T08:02:15Z

> > we can
> > use soft_irq as a backup of self interrupt (for systems without APIC
> > and maybe for other architectures).
>
> Whatever would you want to do that for.

The idea is that the work would be done latest on the next
timer interrupt as a fallback if APIC is not available.

That's what mce does already and it's probably approbiate
for most other users too.

-Andi

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