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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: glauber@gmx.de
Cc: Linux Arch list <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [Patch] SMP call function cleanup
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 10:04:08 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1082678647.22367.126.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1082636511.1332.34.camel@halo>


> there are 3 different kinds of SMP calls:
> 1. all CPUs
> 2. all CPUs but my own
> 3. one CPU
> 
> only _one_ basic function is needed to implement all variants:

Well, I'd go further and allow an arbitraty cpu_mask. There are
cases where that could be an interesting optimisation to be able
to send an IPI to a "set" of CPUs. If the HW can't do it easily,
just send on all and software mask who gets the actual function
call.

Ben.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-04-23  0:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-22 12:21 [Patch] SMP call function cleanup Jan Glauber
2004-04-22 12:28 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-22 12:37   ` Anton Blanchard
2004-04-22 12:49     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-22 12:59     ` James Bottomley
2004-04-22 13:24       ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-22 13:46         ` James Bottomley
2004-04-22 14:06           ` William Lee Irwin III
     [not found]       ` <1082641822.1329.45.camel@halo>
     [not found]         ` <1082642332.1778.39.camel@mulgrave>
2004-04-22 14:15           ` Jan Glauber
2004-04-23  0:05     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-04-23  0:21       ` Anton Blanchard
2004-04-23  0:32         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-04-22 13:58   ` Jan Glauber
2004-04-22 12:33 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-04-22 14:00   ` Jan Glauber
2004-04-22 14:13     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-23  0:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-04-23 23:38 ` David S. Miller
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-04-23  6:46 Martin Schwidefsky
2004-04-23  6:53 Martin Schwidefsky
2004-04-23  7:05 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-04-23  9:00   ` Russell King
2004-04-23  7:46 Martin Schwidefsky

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