Messages in this thread | | | From | "Petr Vandrovec Ing. VTEI" <> | Date | Thu, 14 Oct 1999 20:02:02 MET-1 | Subject | Re: How much NMIs per second? |
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On 14 Oct 99 at 19:58, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > I did not follow discussion about NMI-deadlock-patch on linux-kernel > > very closely, but I have one small question: How much NMIs there should be > > per second? My system gets 100 timer ints (50/s per CPU) and 100 NMIs > > delivered to both CPUs (i.e. 200/s total). Is it correct? [...] > yes. The rate of NMIs is 100/CPU. The rate of the timer interrupt is > 100/system - this gives 50/cpu on your dual box. Thanks for clarification. Unfortunately, vmware was very surprised from these NMIs. Fortunately, it was five-liner to vmmon to disable NMIs when vmware virtual machine takes over CPU. Best regards, Petr Vandrovec vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
P.S.: Patch for vmware modules is at ftp://platan.vc.cvut.cz/pub/vmware/vmware*linux*gz.
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