Re: [rfc][patch] x86-64 new smp_call_function design

[Ingo Molnar]

* 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
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