Re: [PATCH 2/11] x86: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Tue Apr 22 2008 - 04:52:47 EST


On Tue, Apr 22 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > This converts x86 and x86-64 to use the new helpers for
> > smp_call_function() and friends, and adds support for
> > smp_call_function_single().
>
> nice stuff. The x86 and generic bits:
>
> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

Thanks, adding...

> this has been brewing for months, what is the testing/confidence status
> of it? Could we still merge it into v2.6.26? (i think we should)

I'm not aware of any problems. I'd be very grateful if you could give it
a spin on some of your test boxes, just to raise the confidence interval
a bit :-)

--
Jens Axboe

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