Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266182AbUA1TsN (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2004 14:48:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266214AbUA1TsN (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2004 14:48:13 -0500 Received: from palrel12.hp.com ([156.153.255.237]:12165 "EHLO palrel12.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266182AbUA1TsJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2004 14:48:09 -0500 From: David Mosberger MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16408.4597.123125.788631@napali.hpl.hp.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 11:48:05 -0800 To: Andi Kleen Cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com, iod00d@hp.com, 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: <20040128203915.22d84e8d.ak@suse.de> References: <00a201c3e541$c0e7d680$2987110a@lsd.css.fujitsu.com> <20040128172004.GB5494@cup.hp.com> <20040128184137.616b6425.ak@suse.de> <16408.30.896895.980121@napali.hpl.hp.com> <20040128195246.47a84498.ak@suse.de> <16408.3157.336306.812481@napali.hpl.hp.com> <20040128203915.22d84e8d.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: 836 Lines: 19 >>>>> On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 20:39:15 +0100, Andi Kleen said: >> Yet they are a good indicator that something is wrong (not performing >> properly) or may be failing soon. I don't think putting on blinders >> for such problems is a good idea. Though I agree that the question of Andi> Most server class hardware should log it somewhere and allow Andi> to read the event log in the firmware. This even works for Andi> unhandleable errors unlike what the OS could do. And you'd want to reboot your server just so you can check on the soft failure rate? ;-) --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/