> > 2nd Question: Is there a sane way to queue an operation to be done in
> > each specific CPU?
>
> smp_call_function().
The slab code was using smp_call_function until davem fixed it.
On sparc blocking interrupts does not block the reception of cpu cross
calls, so you cannot do anything like grab locks within a called function.
Anton
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