Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262266AbUCaSYC (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Mar 2004 13:24:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262311AbUCaSYC (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Mar 2004 13:24:02 -0500 Received: from atlrel7.hp.com ([156.153.255.213]:64745 "EHLO atlrel7.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262266AbUCaSX7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Mar 2004 13:23:59 -0500 Subject: Re: 2.4.21 on Itanium2: floating-point assist fault at ip 400000000062ada1, isr 0000020000000008 From: Alex Williamson To: davidm@hpl.hp.com Cc: Denis Vlasenko , ulrich.windl@rz.uni-regensburg.de, linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <16491.2184.253165.545651@napali.hpl.hp.com> References: <406AE0D5.10359.1930261@localhost> <200403311900.17293.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> <16491.2184.253165.545651@napali.hpl.hp.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1080757433.2326.32.camel@patsy.fc.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:23:53 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 628 Lines: 18 On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 11:06, David Mosberger wrote: > If the messages appear with a frequency of less than 5 messages/5 > seconds, then there is certainly no performance issue and you may want > to just turn off the messages. But if you do get them at the maximum rate for a computational application, performance could be _severely_ impacted (ie. orders of magnitude). Alex - 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/