Re: [PATCH 2/8] [nmi watchdog] touch_softlockup cleanups andsoftlockup_tick removal

From: Cyrill Gorcunov
Date: Wed May 12 2010 - 17:38:35 EST


On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:00:36PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
...
> > >
> > > Ah right.
> > >
> > > BTW, if you address my reviews, please do it incrementally, I'm going
> > > to apply this set and push it to Ingo.
> >
> > Ok, probably easier to review too. :-)
>
>
> Yeah, and it's time to flush this code as it's good globally.
>
> Plus it would be nice to get this for .35
>
> Ah and forget about the sysctl ABI breakages. Since this is only
> used for kernel development, this is not going to break much things.
> If somebody complains, we can still reintegrate what we had.
>
> Thanks.
>
...
Guys, could you please spend a few minutes and enlighten me a bit?
Does all this series mean that we eventually will drop nmi-watchdog
via io-apic (read via pic) as only the transition to perf complete?

I recall someone said about to stop using io-apic, but just to be sure.

-- Cyrill
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