Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932925AbXFFMSs (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:18:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762309AbXFFMSl (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:18:41 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:45763 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762307AbXFFMSk (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jun 2007 08:18:40 -0400 From: Andi Kleen Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) To: Keir Fraser Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [patch 14/33] xen: xen time implementation Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 14:18:28 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: Jan Beulich , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Xen-devel , Andrew Morton , lkml , Chris Wright , virtualization@lists.osdl.org, Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , Thomas Gleixner References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200706061418.28967.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 659 Lines: 21 > > Yes, this could be an issue. Is there any way to get an interrupt or MCE > when thermal throttling occurs? Yes you can get an thermal interrupt from the local APIC. See the Linux kernel source. Of course there would be still a race window. On the other hand some timing issues on throttling are probably the smallest of the users' problems when it really happens. Standard Linux just ignores it. -Andi - 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/