Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:53:43 +0100 | | From | Ingo Molnar <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/5] Generic smp_call_function(), improvements, and smp_call_function_single() | |
* Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> wrote:
> The patch series is also available in the 'generic-ipi' branch from
>
> git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block.git
>
> and the 'io-cpu-affinity' branch is directly based on this.
i'm still wondering about the following fundamental bit: why not use per
CPU kernel threads? That way you get a fast (lockless) IPI "for free" as
SMP wakeups already do this.
smp_call_function() is quirky and has deep limitations on atomicity,
etc., so we are moving away from it and should not base more
functionality on it.
Ingo
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