Re: [PATCH v3 4/9] x86/mm/tlb: Flush remote and local TLBs concurrently

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Jul 22 2019 - 15:33:06 EST


On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 07:27:09PM +0000, Nadav Amit wrote:
> > On Jul 22, 2019, at 12:14 PM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > But then we can still do something like the below, which doesn't change
> > things and still gets rid of that dual function crud, simplifying
> > smp_call_function_many again.

> Nice! I will add it on top, if you donât mind (instead squashing it).

Not at all.

> The original decision to have local/remote functions was mostly to provide
> the generality.
>
> I would change the last argument of __smp_call_function_many() from âwaitâ
> to âflagsâ that would indicate whether to run the function locally, since I
> donât want to change the semantics of smp_call_function_many() and decide
> whether to run the function locally purely based on the mask. Let me know if
> you disagree.

Agreed.