From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754936Ab0ETJRz (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2010 05:17:55 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:56113 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752653Ab0ETJRy (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2010 05:17:54 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 02:18:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20100520.021802.38283651.davem@davemloft.net> To: jens.axboe@oracle.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org, suresh.b.siddha@intel.com, mingo@elte.hu, tglx@linutronix.de, arjan@linux.jf.intel.com, venki@google.com, svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com, ego@in.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux@dominikbrodowski.net, ncunningham@crca.org.au Subject: Re: [patch 3/7] softirq: avoid softirq_work_list for SCHED_SOFTIRQ when sent remotely From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20100520082309.GH25951@kernel.dk> References: <1274343159.5605.13325.camel@twins> <20100520.011432.209562565.davem@davemloft.net> <20100520082309.GH25951@kernel.dk> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3 on Emacs 23.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jens Axboe Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 10:23:09 +0200 > On Thu, May 20 2010, David Miller wrote: >> From: Peter Zijlstra >> Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 10:12:39 +0200 >> >> > Most odd all that, Dave, Jens, what happened to all that remote_softirq >> > stuff? >> >> Nobody ended up using this remote softirq infrastructure, it can be >> completely deleted. > > What parts of it? There has been reworks of parts of the code since I > added it, the block layer only uses __smp_call_function_single() to > trigger remote softirqs. And that's what the networking is using for RPS/RFS too.