From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, npiggin@suse.de, dgc@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] x86-64: introduce fast variant of smp_call_function_single()
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:25:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080317072514.GY17940@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47DDA624.8000307@goop.org>
On Sun, Mar 16 2008, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Jens Axboe wrote:
> >On Fri, Mar 14 2008, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> >
> >>Jens Axboe wrote:
> >>
> >>>rom: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Why is this necessary? How is smp_call_function_single slow?
> >>
> >
> >Because it's completely serialized by the call_lock spinlock.
> >
>
> Hm, yes. Would it be possible to implement smp_call_function_mask in a
> generic way to avoid that? Turn the static structure into a per-cpu
> request list?
Have you looked at the patches you are replying to? :-)
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-17 7:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-12 11:55 [PATCH 0/7] IO CPU affinity testing series Jens Axboe
2008-03-12 11:55 ` [PATCH 1/7] x86-64: introduce fast variant of smp_call_function_single() Jens Axboe
2008-03-14 18:21 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-03-16 18:45 ` Jens Axboe
2008-03-16 22:58 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-03-17 2:24 ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-17 7:25 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2008-03-12 11:55 ` [PATCH 2/7] x86-64: speedup and tweak smp_call_function_single() Jens Axboe
2008-03-12 11:55 ` [PATCH 3/7] x86: add fast smp_call_function_single() Jens Axboe
2008-03-12 11:55 ` [PATCH 4/7] block: split softirq handling into blk-softirq.c Jens Axboe
2008-03-12 11:55 ` [PATCH 5/7] Add interface for queuing work on a specific CPU Jens Axboe
2008-03-12 11:55 ` [PATCH 6/7] block: make kblockd_schedule_work() take the queue as parameter Jens Axboe
2008-03-12 11:55 ` [PATCH 7/7] block: add test code for testing CPU affinity Jens Axboe
2008-03-12 16:41 ` [PATCH 0/7] IO CPU affinity testing series Alan D. Brunelle
2008-03-12 17:54 ` Jens Axboe
2008-03-12 20:37 ` Max Krasnyanskiy
2008-03-13 12:13 ` Jens Axboe
2008-03-13 14:54 ` Alan D. Brunelle
2008-03-13 15:00 ` Jens Axboe
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