From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Grundler Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 22:10:34 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch] platform hook for timer_interrupt() Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 07:49:18PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > How about smp_call_function() in a regular timer then? smp_call_function() is kind of messy since it uses IPI to call on each CPU. Not sure that's a good solution since it won't complete until all the CPUs have executed the given function. If kernel threads or tasklets don't cut it, I could understand why using a timers machvec would be "lighter weight". grant