Re: [PATCH 02/22 v2] cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq: drop rdmsr_on_cpus() usage
From: Viresh Kumar
Date: Mon Nov 28 2016 - 04:55:02 EST
On 28-11-16, 10:52, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> The online / pre_down callback is invoked on the target CPU since commit
> 1cf4f629d9d2 ("cpu/hotplug: Move online calls to hotplugged cpu") which means
> for the hotplug callback we can use rmdsrl() instead of rdmsr_on_cpus().
>
> This leaves us with set_boost() as the only user which still needs to
> read/write the MSR on different CPUs. There is no point in doing that
> update on all cpus with the read modify write magic via per cpu data. We
> simply can issue a function call on all online CPUs which also means that we
> need half that many IPIs.
>
> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v1âv2: rebase ontop of the previous patch.
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
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viresh