From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755850AbYG2CMd (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:12:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753289AbYG2CMZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:12:25 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:39145 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752326AbYG2CMY (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2008 22:12:24 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:12:15 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Ingo Molnar , Jens Axboe , Andi Kleen , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: x86: Is there still value in having a special tlb flush IPI vector? Message-ID: <20080729021215.GG30344@one.firstfloor.org> References: <488E534F.2030204@goop.org> <488E5455.6010901@goop.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <488E5455.6010901@goop.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 04:20:53PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Resend to cc: Andi on an address which actually works. > > Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > >Now that normal smp_function_call is no longer an enormous bottleneck, Hmm? It still uses a global lock at least as of current git tree. -Andi