Re: [PATCH 2/2] on_each_cpu(): kill unused 'retry' parameter

[Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>]

On Thu, May 29 2008, Carlos R. Mafra wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just a naive comment/question:
> 
> > -	if (on_each_cpu(ipi_imb, NULL, 1, 1))
> > +	if (on_each_cpu(ipi_imb, NULL, 1))
> 
> A few weeks ago I though about removing the second argument
> from on_each_cpu, which is NULL more or less 70% of the time.
> 
> Do you think it is possible?
> Have you already thought about it? 

It's the data argument to the function, I highly doubt you can get
rid of that I'm afraid. on_each_cpu() is just a thin wrapper on
top of smp_call_function() so that the caller doesn't have to
care about manually calling on the local CPU. So as long as
smp_call_function() has a data argument, on_each_cpu() should
carry it as well.

So nope, I don't think that's feasible (or even desired).

-- 
Jens Axboe