On Mon, Feb 18 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: > Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > and that scrapping the remote > > softirq trigger stuff is sanest. > > I actually liked Nick's queued smp_function_call_single() patch. So even > if it was not used for block I would still like to see it being merged > in some form to speed up all the other IPI users.
Sure, Nicks patch was generically usable, my IPI stuff was just a hack made to go as fast as possible for a single use. The current call-on-other cpu path is not exactly scalable... -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/