Re: [PATCH 05/11] smp: Enable preemption early in smp_call_function_many_cond
From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Feb 06 2026 - 04:49:45 EST
On Fri, Feb 06, 2026 at 04:43:48PM +0800, Chuyi Zhou wrote:
> However, 99% of callers have preemption disabled, some of them even
> invoking it within spin_locks (for example, we might trigger a TLB flush
> while holding pte spinlocks).
Then 99% of the callers don't benefit from this and won't see your
latency reduction -- and will be broken on PREEMPT_RT, no?