On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jan 2012 12:24:15 +0200
> Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Add the on_each_cpu_required() function that wraps on_each_cpu_mask()
>> and calculates the cpumask of cpus to IPI by calling a function supplied
>> as a parameter in order to determine whether to IPI each specific cpu.
>
> The name is actually "on_each_cpu_cond".
Oopss... I started out with on_each_cpu_required as a name and switched but
missed the description. Thanks for pointing it out.
<SNIP>
>> + * Call a function on each processor for which the supplied function
>> + * cond_func returns a positive value. This may include the local
>> + * processor, optionally waiting for all the required CPUs to finish.
>> + * The function may be called on all online CPUs without running the
>> + * cond_func function in extreme circumstance (memory allocation
>> + * failure condition when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y)
>> + * All the limitations specified in smp_call_function_many apply.
>> + */
>> +void on_each_cpu_cond(int (*cond_func) (int cpu, void *info),
>> + void (*func)(void *), void *info, bool wait)
>> +{
>> + cpumask_var_t cpus;
>> + int cpu;
>> +
>> + if (likely(zalloc_cpumask_var(&cpus, GFP_ATOMIC))) {
>> + for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
>> + if (cond_func(cpu, info))
>> + cpumask_set_cpu(cpu, cpus);
>> + on_each_cpu_mask(cpus, func, info, wait);
>> + free_cpumask_var(cpus);
>> + } else
>> + on_each_cpu(func, info, wait);
>> +}
>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(on_each_cpu_cond);
>
> If zalloc_cpumask_var() fails, can we not fall back to
>
> for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
> if (cond_func(cpu, info))
> smp_call_function_single(...);
>
Indeed we can and probably should :-)
I'll send out v6 with this and other fixes momentarily.
Thanks,
Gilad
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