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Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:03:02 +0400
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
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To: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf, nmi: Move LVT un-masking into irq handlers
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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