Re: [PATCH] [12/20] x86: Use a per cpu timer for correctablemachine check checking

[Ingo Molnar]

* Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Previously the code used a single timer that then used 
> smp_call_function to interrupt all CPUs while the original CPU was 
> waiting for them.
> 
> But it is better / more real time and more power friendly to simply 
> run individual timers on each CPU so they all do this independently.
> 
> This way no single CPU has to wait for all others.

i think we should unify this code first and provide it on 32-bit as 
well.

	Ingo
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