[PATCH] reduce NMI watchdog call frequency with local APIC.
From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se> The real problem is that SMP with nmi_watchdog=2 initialises the lapic NMI watchdog but doesn't check it and therefore doesn't reduce nmi_hz. This is an SMP bug. The patch changes smpboot.c to do a check_nmi_watchdog() at the appropriate place, which fixes the high NMI frequency problem w/o changing anything else. I've verified that it solves the problem on my MP-capable UP box.
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