> The probability to have more than that _independent_ events > in a small time frame is very very low. Therefore you can > afford losing events of the same "burst". Both the CMC and CPE interrupt paths have code to switch to polling mode in the presence of a burst of correctable errors. Can we tune this threshold w.r.t. the number of buffers we pre-allocate to save error records so that we (the OS) won't be responsible for losing errors? Obviously entering polling mode puts the responsibility onto SAL to keep track of all the error reports - but nobody ever complained that this might result in the loss of error information if the SAL runs out of space to keep the error records before the next poll from the OS. ["solving" problems by shifting the blame point?] -Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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