On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 11:46 +1100, Keith Owens wrote: > > We should be able to keep the first few CMC/CPE records for each cpu in > NVRAM and discard the later ones if we start getting a backlog. Then > if the system hangs while processing a CMC/CPE, the data will still be > available in NVRAM and will be processed on the next boot. If the > reboot hangs again in salinfo processing then we have a solid error, > either cpu or SAL, so switch the offending cpu out of the system. > > Any objections from other platforms? Keith, Sorry, it's been a while since I've looked at this code, but how do we determine how many records can be stored in NVRAM? I would guess that for CPEs at least, it's platform dependent. If it can be done w/o losing records, it's probably ok, but I'm not sure I understand the details. Thanks, Alex -- Alex Williamson HP Linux & Open Source Lab - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Sat Jan 14 02:04:03 2006
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