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SubjectRe: [PATCH 05/10] smp: Fast path check on IPI list
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 02:07:39PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 07:37:31PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > When we enqueue a remote irq work, we trigger the same IPI as those
> > raised by smp_call_function_*() family.
> >
> > So when we receive such IPI, we check both irq_work and smp_call_function
> > queues. Thus if we trigger a remote irq work, we'll likely find the
> > smp_call_function queue empty unless we collide with concurrent enqueuers
> > but the probability is low.
> >
> > Meanwhile, checking the smp_call_function queue can be costly because
> > we use llist_del_all() which relies on cmpxchg().
>
> xchg()

Ah, right!


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