[RESEND PATCH 2/3] powerpc: Implement tick broadcast IPI as a fixed IPI message

2014-02-09 Thread Preeti U Murthy
From: Srivatsa S. Bhat For scalability and performance reasons, we want the tick broadcast IPIs to be handled as efficiently as possible. Fixed IPI messages are one of the most efficient mechanisms available - they are faster than the smp_call_function mechanism because the IPI handlers are

[RESEND PATCH 2/3] powerpc: Implement tick broadcast IPI as a fixed IPI message

2014-02-09 Thread Preeti U Murthy
From: Srivatsa S. Bhat srivatsa.b...@linux.vnet.ibm.com For scalability and performance reasons, we want the tick broadcast IPIs to be handled as efficiently as possible. Fixed IPI messages are one of the most efficient mechanisms available - they are faster than the smp_call_function mechanism

[PATCH 2/3] powerpc: Implement tick broadcast IPI as a fixed IPI message

2014-01-30 Thread Preeti U Murthy
From: Srivatsa S. Bhat For scalability and performance reasons, we want the tick broadcast IPIs to be handled as efficiently as possible. Fixed IPI messages are one of the most efficient mechanisms available - they are faster than the smp_call_function mechanism because the IPI handlers are

[PATCH 2/3] powerpc: Implement tick broadcast IPI as a fixed IPI message

2014-01-30 Thread Preeti U Murthy
From: Srivatsa S. Bhat srivatsa.b...@linux.vnet.ibm.com For scalability and performance reasons, we want the tick broadcast IPIs to be handled as efficiently as possible. Fixed IPI messages are one of the most efficient mechanisms available - they are faster than the smp_call_function mechanism