Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751314AbWEVXtt (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 19:49:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751313AbWEVXtt (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 19:49:49 -0400 Received: from e34.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.152]:28330 "EHLO e34.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751316AbWEVXts (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 May 2006 19:49:48 -0400 Message-ID: <44724DE3.2000209@us.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 16:48:51 -0700 From: Mike Mason User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: nmi_watchdog default setting on i386 and x86_64 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 517 Lines: 13 Does anybody know the reasoning behind having nmi_watchdog turned off by default on i386 and on by default on x86_64. I've heard that i386 had problems with false positives in the past, but that local apic watchdog may make that concern obsolete. Regards, Mike Mason - 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/