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* [rfc -tip 0/2] Implementing self IPI with NMI destination
@ 2010-10-27 19:53 Cyrill Gorcunov
  2010-10-27 19:53 ` [rfc -tip 1/2] x86, apic: Get rid of some IPI wrappers Cyrill Gorcunov
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From: Cyrill Gorcunov @ 2010-10-27 19:53 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel, Maciej W. Rozycki
  Cc: Ingo Molnar, H. Peter Anvin, Suresh Siddha, Thomas Gleixner,
	Yinghai Lu, Don Zickus

 Here is self-IPI with NMI destination implemented. Don was testing
perf NMI's and we found that we don't have a simple call for self-nmi IPI.

 So there is two way of implementing such facility:

1) Make .send_IPI_self to check for NMI_VECTOR in arguments
   and convert this call internally to NMI IPI with self in
   destination.

2) Make a separate .send_IPI_self_nmi function and call it only
   if needed.

 The series implements 1st choise but I tend to think that 2nd might
be more preferred since it would not bring overhead into .send_IPI_self
and would make code a bit less messed.

 Anyway, this series is not for merging yet but rather to collect
complains about this approach. And to be fair we seem don't have
x2apic machine at moment so x2apic mode is not tested at all.

 In short -- please check and review this two patches. Anything
is welcome ;)

 Cyrill

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