On Sunday, 16 of November 2008, Alexey Starikovskiy wrote:--Justin P. Mattock wrote:Well; reverting:Justin, by decreasing threshold, we just change how often _detection_ of
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=06cf7d3c7af902939cd1754abcafb2464060cba8
is keeping the system from having a gpe storm
(for at least four hours now);
haven't had a chance to drain the battery and see
the affects from that scenario.
the storm fires, not the storm itself.
Yes, I think what happens is that we just detect the interrupt storm with the
lower threshold, so the storm occured anyway previously, but it went unnoticed
(not necessarily a good thing).
There is nothing to worry about as long as the box works as expected.
Thanks,
Rafael