Re: How much NMIs per second?

Ingo Molnar (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Thu, 14 Oct 1999 19:58:25 +0200 (CEST)


On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Petr Vandrovec Ing. VTEI wrote:

> I did not follow discussion about NMI-deadlock-patch on linux-kernel
> very closely, but I have one small question: How much NMIs there should be
> per second? My system gets 100 timer ints (50/s per CPU) and 100 NMIs
> delivered to both CPUs (i.e. 200/s total). Is it correct? [...]

yes. The rate of NMIs is 100/CPU. The rate of the timer interrupt is
100/system - this gives 50/cpu on your dual box.

-- mingo

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