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From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
To: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf, nmi: Move LVT un-masking into irq handlers
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:03:02 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DAEF5A6.4040405@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110420145754.GT20887@redhat.com>

On 04/20/2011 06:57 PM, Don Zickus wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 06:37:10PM +0400, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote:
>> Don, sorry for delay, I somehow missed this patch at first place :/ And probably
>> the patch below could help with "stess" problem?
> 
> The patch I am using for the 'stress' problem is different than what I
> posted because I wanted to keep it simple for 2.6.39.  But yeah I already
> moved the unmasking to the enable_pmus_all(0) line.

ok

> 
> The thing is that cuts down on some of these in-flight NMIs but not all of
> them.  I came up with some logic that catches all the in-flight NMIs on
> Nehalem and AMDs but my core2quad still fails.  I'll try to post that
> today while requesting help.

ok

> 
> Still not sure you need the double APIC writes (as your patch) shows.  I
> haven't seen a case in my testing where a single APIC write fails.

yup, we can drop it, thanks!

> 
> Cheers,
> Don

-- 
    Cyrill

  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-20 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-18 16:56 [PATCH] perf, nmi: Move LVT un-masking into irq handlers Don Zickus
2011-04-20 14:37 ` Cyrill Gorcunov
2011-04-20 14:57   ` Don Zickus
2011-04-20 15:03     ` Cyrill Gorcunov [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-04-27 10:32 Don Zickus
2011-04-27 17:26 ` Cyrill Gorcunov

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