Re: Re-implement MCE log ring buffer as per-CPU ring buffer

[Ingo Molnar]

* Robert Richter <robert.richter@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 22.04.09 11:22:59, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > Re-implement MCE log ring buffer as per-CPU ring buffer for better 
> > > scalability. Basic design is as follow:
> > 
> > Before changing anything substantial in the MCE code it would be 
> > necessary to clean up and then unify the 32-bit and 64-bit side 
> > of the MCE code first. (Which essentially means extending the 
> > 64-bit-only code to 32-bit)
> 
> You may also want to consider to use the in-kernel ring_buffer api 
> (include/linux/ring_buffer.h).

Yeah. I'd have suggested that once cleanups and unification is done 
(which is still a long way out :-).

	Ingo
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