Re: [PATCH v2] irqchip: gic: Allow gic_arch_extn hooks to call into scheduler

[Stephen Boyd]

On 08/05/14 19:34, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>
>> It allows us to synchronize with another CPU that may be inside
>> gic_raise_softirq(). If the other CPU was in that function then this CPU
>> would wait until it was done sending the IPI to continue along and
>> reroute them. If the other CPU was just about to grab the sgi lock then
>> we would guarantee that the CPU would see the new gic_cpu_map value and
>> thus any redirection is not necessary.
> OK I get it now.
>
>> I hoped that the commit text explained this.
> I'm possibly not bright enough to get it the first time.
>
>> Honestly it probably isn't a noticeable performance boost either way 
>> but I think this is the best we can do.
> Sure, agreed.
>
>
>

Ok, so which patch is preferred?

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