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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 0/5] Reduce cross CPU IPI interference
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On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 3:36 AM, Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> wrote:
> On 11/22/2011 6:08 AM, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote:
>> We have lots of infrastructure in place to partition a multi-core system such that we have a group of CPUs that are dedicated to
>
> Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
>
> I think this kind of work is very important as more and more processing
> moves to isolated cpus that need protection from miscellaneous kernel
> interrupts.  Keep at it! :-)

Thank you very much. I believe it also has some small contribution to
keeping idle CPUs idle in a multi-core system. I consider this my
personal carbon offset effort :-)

My current plan is to take a look at each invocation of on_each_cpu in
core kernel code and see if it makes sense to give it a similar
treatment.

Thanks,
Gilad

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