On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 13:05 +0200, Alexander Nyberg wrote: > [Proper patch now that goes all the way, sorry for spamming] > > Patch below uses RETIRED_UOPS for a more constant rate of NMI sending. > This makes x64 deliver NMI interrupts every fourth second at a constant > rate when going through the local apic. Makes both cpus on my box to get > NMIs at constant rate that it previously did not, there could be long > delays when a CPU was idle.
isn't this dangerous in the light of the mobile cpus that either scale back or stop entirely in idle or lower load situations ? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
