1. 26 Jun, 2008 1 commit
    • Jens Axboe's avatar
      Add generic helpers for arch IPI function calls · 3d442233
      Jens Axboe authored
      This adds kernel/smp.c which contains helpers for IPI function calls. In
      addition to supporting the existing smp_call_function() in a more efficient
      manner, it also adds a more scalable variant called smp_call_function_single()
      for calling a given function on a single CPU only.
      
      The core of this is based on the x86-64 patch from Nick Piggin, lots of
      changes since then. "Alan D. Brunelle" <Alan.Brunelle@hp.com> has
      contributed lots of fixes and suggestions as well. Also thanks to
      Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> for reviewing RCU usage
      and getting rid of the data allocation fallback deadlock.
      Acked-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Reviewed-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
      3d442233
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