Re: Enabling RDPMC in user space by default

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Dec 01 2005 - 08:04:43 EST


> I agree that the NMI watchdog is very important, but my main objection is
> trying to provide a stable interface for this, i would rather see a
> seperate tool do it (as cumbersome as it may be) even if it meant that
> the external tool simply did what you intend on doing in the kernel.

But why an external tool when the nmi watchdog needs this anyways?

-Andi
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