Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266134AbUA1ScH (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:32:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266131AbUA1ScH (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:32:07 -0500 Received: from palrel11.hp.com ([156.153.255.246]:39071 "EHLO palrel11.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266128AbUA1ScD (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2004 13:32:03 -0500 From: David Mosberger MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16408.30.896895.980121@napali.hpl.hp.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 10:31:58 -0800 To: Andi Kleen Cc: Grant Grundler , ishii.hironobu@jp.fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH, 1/4] readX_check() performance evaluation In-Reply-To: <20040128184137.616b6425.ak@suse.de> References: <00a201c3e541$c0e7d680$2987110a@lsd.css.fujitsu.com> <20040128172004.GB5494@cup.hp.com> <20040128184137.616b6425.ak@suse.de> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under Emacs 21.3.1 Reply-To: davidm@hpl.hp.com X-URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 825 Lines: 20 >>>>> On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 18:41:37 +0100, Andi Kleen said: Andi> Also in my experience from AMD64 which originally was a bit Andi> aggressive on enabling MCEs: enabling MCEs increases your Andi> kernel support load a lot. Andi> Many people have slightly buggy systems which still happen to Andi> work mostly. If you report every problem you as kernel Andi> maintainer will be flooded with reports about things you can Andi> nothing to do about. I find this comment interesting. Can you elaborate what you mean by "slightly buggy systems"? --david - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/