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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 23:40:04 -0500 (EST)
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@holomorphy.com>
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To: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
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Subject: Re: NMI handling rework for x86
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On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, Corey Minyard wrote:

> John Levon suggested I send this to you.  It's a cleanup of the NMI 
> handling to make it into a request/release mechanism (instead of 
> hard-coding everything into traps.c).  It renames "nmi.c" to 
> "nmi_watchdog.c" (as it should be named) and moves the real NMI handling 
> code from traps.c to nmi.c.  It's been posted and reworked on lkml, and 
> it seems to have finally met approval.  The "cc-ed" people have reviewed 
> the patch (or at least made helpful suggestions :-).

What interrupt rate have you tested this at? SMP? Adding handlers at 
runtime? I'm still skeptical on how RCU protects you, but i'm RCU clueless...

	Zwane
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