Re: [patch] improve SMP reschedule and idle routines

[Nick Piggin]

David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 15:19:00 +1000
>
>
> > The other obvious problem with sparc64 that I didn't tackle is
> > your secondary CPU bringup - those CPUs will be calling cpu_idle
> > with preempt enabled as was previously required, but now should
> > have preempt disabled (ie. arch/sparc64/kernel/trampoline.S:
> > call cpu_idle)
>
>
> And adding a preempt_disable() call to the end of
> arch/sparc64/kernel/smp.c:smp_callin() won't work
> because?

No that looks like it should work. If that is the "right"
place to put it, then that's perfect. I'll resend the patch
to you privately.

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