Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261478AbUCDGc3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2004 01:32:29 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261479AbUCDGc3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2004 01:32:29 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:12708 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261478AbUCDGc2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Mar 2004 01:32:28 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2004 22:32:35 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Philippe Elie Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] nmi_watchdog=2 and P4-HT Message-Id: <20040303223235.177685dd.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040304072630.GB683@zaniah> References: <20040304054215.GA683@zaniah> <20040303213033.6348a08b.akpm@osdl.org> <20040304072630.GB683@zaniah> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 672 Lines: 17 Philippe Elie wrote: > > > What do you think about the feature "the performance doesn't increment > counter in hlt mode". That sounds OK. If the CPU halts with local interrupts disabled (is this possible?) then I assume it'll never come back. But this possibility isn't worth worrying about, surely. Can we scale the performance counter multiplier down a bit? 1000 NMIs per second sounds excessive. - 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/