Terence Ripperda wrote:
>
> ..
> > Possibly the IPI has got lost - seems that this is a popular failure mode
> > for flakey chipsets/motherboards.
>
> this sounds like the most likely candidate. I'm working on tracking down
> documentation for further study. Is there an easy way to determine this
> as the cause?
Some systems will drop nasty messages in the logs when APIC checksum
errors are detected. And such systems will also be prone to lockups
due to failed delivery. But whether IPIs can be lost without any such
warning signs: don't know, sorry.
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