Messages in this thread | | | From | Nick Piggin <> | Subject | Re: x86: Is there still value in having a special tlb flush IPI vector? | Date | Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:17:41 +1000 |
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On Tuesday 29 July 2008 20:04, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 20:00 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > > On Tuesday 29 July 2008 19:54, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 14:30 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > Not to mention the minor problem that it still deadlocks when called > > > > with interrupts disabled ;) > > > > > > __smp_call_function_single has potential though.. > > > > For reschedule interrupt? I don't really agree. > > Not specifically, for not deadlocking from irq-off, more so.
Oh, well yes it already does work from irq-off, so it has already realised its potential :)
Not sure exactly what kinds of users it is going to attract, but it should be interesting to see!
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