On Sat, Apr 26 2008, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 11:11:00PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:50:17 +0200 Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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. > > Where is the new smp_call_function() defined? I see only the declaration. > > Probably just blind... kernel/smp.c? Basically just a wrapper around smp_call_function_mask(). > See comments interspersed below. Thanks a lot! I'll go over these tomorrow, the fallback graceperiod definitely looks valid. -- Jens Axboe -- 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