On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 08:42:15PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> It seems that the Alpha port still calls schedule() during tlb flush
> operations. Could you please remove the pointer_lock() from
> smp_call_function()? Just replace it with a simple spin_lock() or
> spin_lock_bh().
Actually, just replace the schedule with a barrier. Using a
spinlock would require extra storage, which would be wasteful.
r~
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