Re: [PATCH 1/11] Add generic helpers for arch IPI function calls

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Tue Apr 22 2008 - 13:33:41 EST




On Tue, 22 Apr 2008, Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> But wait, falling back to wait cannot always be safe if we are called
> with interrupts disabled. I don't see any way around using the global
> fallback for that case.

Hmm. Good point. It does look like you need three cases.

Linus
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