Re: [PATCH RESEND] smp: make wake up idle cpus more generic
From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Apr 01 2016 - 03:08:10 EST
* Lianwei Wang <lianwei.wang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The wake_up_all_idle_cpus API always wake up all the online
> cpus, but sometimes we only want to wake up a set of cpus.
>
> Use a generic function to wake up a group of cpus that is
> specified by the cpumask parameter. This generic API can
> benefit to the cases that only need to wake up a set of
> cpus.
What is the new user of this new argument to the wake-up call?
Thanks,
Ingo