From: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 adds smp_call_function_single
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:00:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060711200027.GB29402@frankl.hpl.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060711175239.GI5362@redhat.com>
Dave,
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 01:52:39PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 06:24:22AM -0700, Stephane Eranian wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Continiung the series of small patches necessary for the perfmon subsystem, here
> > is a patch that adds support for the smp_call_function_single() function for i386.
> > It exists for almost all other architectures but i386. The perfmon subsystem
> > needs it in one case to free some state on a designated remote CPU.
> >
> > Changelog:
> > - adds smp_call_function_single() to i386 tree. This function
> > is used to invoked a procedure on a designated remote CPU.
>
> The naming seems a little strange to me. Something like
> run_on_cpu() would be clearer. Less keystrokes too :)
>
I agree with you that the name is a bit long but I did not invent it.
The same function name is used for this functionality on IA-64 and X86-64.
--
-Stephane
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-11 20:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-11 13:24 Stephane Eranian
2006-07-11 17:52 ` Dave Jones
2006-07-11 20:00 ` Stephane Eranian [this message]
2006-07-13 6:47 ` Keith Owens
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