Re: [RFC PATCH 09/10] POWERPC: smp: remove call toipi_call_lock()/ipi_call_unlock()

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Sat Jun 16 2012 - 16:58:09 EST


On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 07:30:58PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-06-16 at 09:32 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > However, there is an effort to get rid of stop_machine() from the
> > CPU-down path... So something else will be needed.
>
> Elsewhere in this thread I mentioned we could do a synchronize_sched().
> I think that covers most of what stop-machine is doing these days.

Ah, apologies for the noise!

Thanx, Paul

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