From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754685Ab0ETIXO (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2010 04:23:14 -0400 Received: from 0122700014.0.fullrate.dk ([95.166.99.235]:35479 "EHLO kernel.dk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751470Ab0ETIXL (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2010 04:23:11 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 10:23:09 +0200 From: Jens Axboe To: David Miller 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 Message-ID: <20100520082309.GH25951@kernel.dk> References: <20100517182726.089700767@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com> <20100517184027.777058425@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com> <1274343159.5605.13325.camel@twins> <20100520.011432.209562565.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100520.011432.209562565.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -- Jens Axboe