On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 14:52 -0800, Mike Kravetz wrote: > Any reason why you could not do SMI detection in user level code running > at the highest RT priority? Yeah. I had some suggestions about that already...the problem with that is that you can't know whether measured latencies are due to SMIs /or/ other kernel latencies - maybe there's a bug or other problem? I really want to be able to say to vendors "nope, it's definitely your problem". So I think what'll end up happening is a user process for ease of deployment but something like smi_detector for advanced diagnostics. And then I just hope others will write tools like the one IBM already has that will turn off extraneous SMI generation :) Jon. -- 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
