Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757742AbZA3BMT (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:12:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752149AbZA3BMJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:12:09 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:48205 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751644AbZA3BMI (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:12:08 -0500 From: Rusty Russell To: Steven Rostedt Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2] use per cpu data for single cpu ipi calls Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:41:57 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.3 (Linux/2.6.27-9-generic; KDE/4.1.3; i686; ; ) Cc: Peter Zijlstra , Andrew Morton , LKML , npiggin@suse.de, Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Arjan van de Ven , jens.axboe@oracle.com References: <1233218954.7835.11.camel@twins> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200901301141.58591.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 965 Lines: 22 On Friday 30 January 2009 01:38:01 Steven Rostedt wrote: > > The smp_call_function can be passed a wait parameter telling it to > wait for all the functions running on other CPUs to complete before > returning, or to return without waiting. Unfortunately, this is > currently just a suggestion and not manditory. That is, the > smp_call_function can decide not to return and wait instead. I think the file could probably use some comment love and the comments made more pithy (the correct comment in the "kmalloc failed" path usually involves cussing), but we can't have everything. Not that it matters, but since I was the last one to touch this file: Acked-by: Rusty Russell Thanks! Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/