From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751214AbWGKUI5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:08:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751216AbWGKUI5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:08:57 -0400 Received: from atlrel7.hp.com ([156.153.255.213]:694 "EHLO atlrel7.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751214AbWGKUI4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:08:56 -0400 Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:00:27 -0700 From: Stephane Eranian To: Dave Jones , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386 adds smp_call_function_single Message-ID: <20060711200027.GB29402@frankl.hpl.hp.com> Reply-To: eranian@hpl.hp.com References: <20060711132422.GB28851@frankl.hpl.hp.com> <20060711175239.GI5362@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060711175239.GI5362@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organisation: HP Labs Palo Alto Address: HP Labs, 1U-17, 1501 Page Mill road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. E-mail: eranian@hpl.hp.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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