Re: [PATCH v5 1/8] smp: Run functions concurrently in smp_call_function_many_cond()
From: Nadav Amit
Date: Tue Feb 16 2021 - 14:05:10 EST
> On Feb 16, 2021, at 10:59 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 06:53:09PM +0000, Nadav Amit wrote:
>>> On Feb 16, 2021, at 8:32 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>> I'm not sure I can explain it yet. It did get me looking at
>>> on_each_cpu() and it appears that wants to be converted too, something
>>> like the below perhaps.
>>
>> Looks like a good cleanup, but I cannot say I understand the problem and how
>> it would solve it. Err...
>
> Yeah, me neither. Bit of a mystery so far.
I’ll try to see whether I can figure out about it. Perhaps there is
somewhere an assumption of ordering between the local and remote function
invocations.
Regardless, would you want me to have on_each_cpu() as inline or to keep it
in smp.c?