On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 5:51 AM Andrew Jones <drjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 12:03:58AM -0500, Jintack Lim wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I wonder if there's a way to run some job on the secondary cpus on > > x86. ARM code has a function smp_boot_secondary() for that purpose. I > > don't seem to find a counterpart on x86. I only see that the secondary > > cpus on x86 do nothing but handling interrupts. > > > Hi Jintack, > > Check out the on_cpu* API which x86 supports (see lib/x86/smp.h) Thanks, drew. But I thought it was mostly to run a function on a cpu as an ipi interrupt handler. What I would like to do is to run some job on a cpu in the background (e.g. while loop) while it can also receive IPI and handle it. Can I do that with on_cpu*() APIs? > > Thanks, > drew >
