Re: [RFC/PATCH, 1/4] readX_check() performance evaluation

From: David Mosberger
Date: Wed Jan 28 2004 - 13:33:47 EST


>>>>> On Wed, 28 Jan 2004 18:41:37 +0100, Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> said:

Andi> Also in my experience from AMD64 which originally was a bit
Andi> aggressive on enabling MCEs: enabling MCEs increases your
Andi> kernel support load a lot.

Andi> Many people have slightly buggy systems which still happen to
Andi> work mostly. If you report every problem you as kernel
Andi> maintainer will be flooded with reports about things you can
Andi> nothing to do about.

I find this comment interesting. Can you elaborate what you mean by
"slightly buggy systems"?

--david
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