Re: mmotm 2009-04-10-02-21 uploaded - forkbombed by work_for_cpu

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Apr 13 2009 - 15:42:23 EST



* Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:49:32AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:45:45 -0700 (PDT)
> > >
> > > IOW, why not just do
> > >
> > > smp_call_function_many(cmd->mask, do_drv_write, cmd, 1);
> > >
> > > here?
> > >
> >
> > Didn't know it existed :(
>
> heh. I'm going to run with that excuse too.
> Remember the days when you could fit the kernels API in your head? :)

smp_call_function_many() is the modern mask-pointery version of
smp_call_function_mask() - which is a pretty ancient API.

Ingo
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