Re: Overview of concurrency managed workqueue

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Sat Jun 19 2010 - 08:49:13 EST


On 06/19/2010 02:20 PM, Andi Kleen wrote:
>> * Do machines ever report that many MCE errors? The usual rate seems
>> like one per weeks or months even when they're frequent.
>
> Yes you can even get a flood when the system or parts
> of the system is dying. There's some throttling in the error handling,
> but yes in some cases you can get high rates.
>
>> * If a machine is actually reporting enough errors to overwhelm single
>> error handling thread, does it even matter what we do?
>
> There are cases where you can have many errors but still survive.

Alright, adding to todo list.

Thanks.

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tejun
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