Re: [PATCH 1/7] x86-64: introduce fast variant of smp_call_function_single()

[Jens Axboe]

On Sun, Mar 16 2008, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Jens Axboe wrote:
> >On Fri, Mar 14 2008, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> >  
> >>Jens Axboe wrote:
> >>    
> >>>rom: Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx>
> >>> 
> >>>      
> >>Why is this necessary?  How is smp_call_function_single slow?
> >>    
> >
> >Because it's completely serialized by the call_lock spinlock.
> >  
> 
> Hm, yes.  Would it be possible to implement smp_call_function_mask in a 
> generic way to avoid that?  Turn the static structure into a per-cpu 
> request list?

Have you looked at the patches you are replying to? :-)

-- 
Jens Axboe

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