Re: rps perfomance WAS(Re: rps: question

Andi Kleen
2010-04-16T07:15:23Z

> > Come on Changli.
> >
> > How do you wake up a thread on a remote cpu ?
> >
>
> resched IPI, apparently. But it is async absolutely. and its IRQ
> handler is lighter.

It shouldn't be a lot lighter than the new fancy "queued smp_call_function"
that's in the tree for a few releases. So it would surprise me if it made
much difference. In the old days when there was only a single lock for
s_c_f() perhaps...

-Andi

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