Re: [PATCH] x86/apic: reduce cache line misses in __x2apic_send_IPI_mask()

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Thu Oct 07 2021 - 10:13:31 EST


On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 7:07 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 07:04:09AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > Good idea, I will try this.
> > Hopefully nr_cpu_ids is populated there ?
>
> Lets hope :-), I'm always terminally lost in early bringup. I figure it
> should be painfully obvious if it goes wrong.

The answer seems to be yes on hosts I tested.