On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 09:58:14AM -0700, Tim Hockin wrote:
> On 27 Apr 2007 11:09:17 +0200, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 06:02:52PM -0700, Tim Hockin wrote:
> >> Description:
> >> This patch makes the MCE poller adjust the polling interval dynamically.
> >> If we find an MCE, poll 2x faster (down to 10 ms). When we stop finding
> >> MCEs, poll 2x slower (up to check_interval seconds). The check_interval
> >> tunable becomes the max polling interval.
> >
> >Can you please fix the documentation then?
>
> Which documentation, specifically? :)
Documentation/x86_64/{boot-options.txt,machinecheck}
>
> >> Result:
> >> If you start to take a lot of correctable errors (not exceptions), you
> >> log them faster and more accurately (less chance of overflowing the MCA
> >> registers). If you don't take a lot of errors, you will see no change.
> >
> >Makes sense.
> >
> >AMD RevF can do this using the threshold interrupts too for DIMM errors
> >too without any delays -- perhaps it would also make sense to configure
> >this by default that it always triggers on all DIMM errors.
> >Right now it is just an option in /sys
>
> Can I look at this as a followon patch? I have a number of mce
Sure.
-Andi
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