Re: Overview of concurrency managed workqueue

[Andi Kleen]

> * 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.

-Andi
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