On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:55 PM, Jon Masters <jcm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Here's a simple SMI detector we've been playing around with internally. > In case anyone wants to play with it, and especially help clean it up :) > > SMI events are particularly unhelpful on Real Time systems because we > effectively have the CPU stolen from under us. We can't prevent this > easily without BIOS vendors/system vendor co-operation, but we can help > to diagnose and log that these are occuring...which can be very helpful > too. > FYI the RTAI project has a patch to allow disabling of SMI: https://listas.upv.es/pipermail/rtlinuxgpl/2007-April/000609.html Lee -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
