From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
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Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 10:37:53 -0800
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Cc: davidm@hpl.hp.com, Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>,
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       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.4.21 on Itanium2: floating-point assist fault at ip
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>>>>> On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:23:53 -0700, Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com> said:

  Alex> 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.

  Alex> But if you do get them at the maximum rate for a computational
  Alex> application, performance could be _severely_ impacted (ie. orders of
  Alex> magnitude).

Good point.

	--david
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