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From: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC v2 6/7] touch softlockup watchdog
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:07:17 -0300
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On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:33:26AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>  On 08/30/2010 09:06 AM, Glauber Costa wrote:
> > With a reliable steal time mechanism, we can tell if we're
> > out of the cpu for very long, differentiating from the case
> > that we simply got a real softlockup.
> >
> > In the case we were out of cpu, the watchdog is fed, making
> > bogus softlockups disappear.
> 
> Why not change the softlockup to measure unstolen time rather than
> explicitly poking it from a hypervisor-specific function?
> 
Ok, I like your idea much better.

Thanks!