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From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Intel thermal monitor for x86_64 (updated)
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 14:57:53 -0700 (MST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0411181457260.7988@musoma.fsmlabs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041118200143.GP17532@wotan.suse.de>

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Andi Kleen wrote:

> Flooding the kmsg is as bad.
> 
> I think a better strategy is to just increase the minimum check interval
> to avoid this. And then treat printk and mce_log the same.
> 
> > 
> > > Also the next_check logic should already handle this I guess,
> > > becaumse I assume the temperature dropping won't take
> > > that long.  So I guess it would be best to drop that 
> > > and if it's still a problem use a longer next_check timeout
> > > of several seconds.
> > 
> > The temperature drop can take a while, i've observed 2-3 minutes if the 
> > processor is also loaded and the ambient temperature is low (20C). So you 
> > could lose 12 or so slots in the mce log due to the temperature ping 
> > ponging.
> 
> Ok then perhaps a extremly long check timeout of 5 minutes? 

Agreed, i'll have something tommorrow.

Thanks for the input,
	Zwane


  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-18 22:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-18 15:49 [PATCH] Intel thermal monitor for x86_64 (updated) Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-11-18 16:33 ` Andi Kleen
2004-11-18 17:58   ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-11-18 20:01     ` Andi Kleen
2004-11-18 21:57       ` Zwane Mwaikambo [this message]
2004-11-19 15:51         ` Zwane Mwaikambo

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