* Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > the two structures are quite similar in size and role - why not have > > a type field and handle them largely together? I think we should try > > to preserve a single queue and a single vector - that would remove a > > number of ugly special-cases from the patch. > > A single queue will kill one of the big fundamental scalability > improvements of the call_single. That's the problem. hm, indeed. Then how about the other way around: couldnt the normal all-cpus SMP function call be implemented transparently via using smp_call_single() calls? The vector duplication is really ugly and feels wrong. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
