From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751957AbWCOWsI (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:48:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752134AbWCOWsI (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:48:08 -0500 Received: from mail.dvmed.net ([216.237.124.58]:43147 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751957AbWCOWsH (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:48:07 -0500 Message-ID: <441899A0.8030608@garzik.org> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 17:48:00 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Bill Rugolsky Jr." CC: Ingo Molnar , Lee Revell , Andi Kleen , Jason Baron , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, john stultz Subject: Re: libata/sata_nv latency on NVIDIA CK804 [was Re: AMD64 X2 lost ticks on PM timer] References: <200602280022.40769.darkray@ic3man.com> <4408BEB5.7000407@garzik.org> <20060303234330.GA14401@ti64.telemetry-investments.com> <200603040107.27639.ak@suse.de> <20060315213638.GA17817@ti64.telemetry-investments.com> <1142459152.1671.64.camel@mindpipe> <20060315215848.GB18241@elte.hu> <441893AB.1070300@garzik.org> <20060315222441.GA24074@elte.hu> <20060315223656.GC17817@ti64.telemetry-investments.com> In-Reply-To: <20060315223656.GC17817@ti64.telemetry-investments.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bill Rugolsky Jr. wrote: > On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 11:24:41PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote: > >>well, it's a PIO inb() op i think, and could thus in theory trigger SMM >>BIOS code. > > > Is there any easy way to disable more SMM stuff than "noacpi"? It's unlikely you can disable SMM stuff even with noacpi... Jeff