Re: RCU question

From: Lee Revell
Date: Tue Dec 14 2004 - 16:45:53 EST


On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 13:15 +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Overall this is a very minor issue (unless HZ is 0), it would only
> introduce a 1/HZ latency to the irq that get posted while the nmi
> handler is running, and the nmi handlers never runs in production.

Ingo, couldn't this account for some of the inexplicable outliers some
people were seeing in latency tests?

Lee

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