Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754412Ab0FSICP (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:02:15 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:37058 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753853Ab0FSICM (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Jun 2010 04:02:12 -0400 Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 10:02:10 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: huang ying , Ingo Molnar , Hidetoshi Seto , Huang Ying , Fr??d??ric Weisbecker , Don Zickus , "H.PeterA" <"nvin hpa"@zytor.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [RFC 1/3] Unified NMI delayed call mechanism Message-ID: <20100619080210.GC18946@basil.fritz.box> References: <1276334896-7075-1-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com> <20100612102558.GA4000@elte.hu> <4C15A5D1.1040104@jp.fujitsu.com> <20100618094838.GD23977@elte.hu> <20100618124551.GC7612@elte.hu> <20100618143532.GA10886@elte.hu> <1276875067.1875.133.camel@laptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1276875067.1875.133.camel@laptop> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 676 Lines: 21 > > we can > > use soft_irq as a backup of self interrupt (for systems without APIC > > and maybe for other architectures). > > Whatever would you want to do that for. The idea is that the work would be done latest on the next timer interrupt as a fallback if APIC is not available. That's what mce does already and it's probably approbiate for most other users too. -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- 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/