kernel is highly latency sensitive.
SMIs are not serviced by the Linux kernel, which means that it does not
-even know that they are occuring. SMIs are instead set up by BIOS code
+even know that they are occurring. SMIs are instead set up by BIOS code
and are serviced by BIOS code, usually for "critical" events such as
management of thermal sensors and fans. Sometimes though, SMIs are used for
other tasks and those tasks can spend an inordinate amount of time in the