Re: [patch] genapic: optimize & fix APIC mode setup

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Nov 13 2006 - 14:10:14 EST



* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> [...] If something is cheap then other costs added to (such as
> cpu-mask scanning, and passing around the cpumask) definitely do
> matter.

btw., i dont claim this is a big issue - we could solve this for the
common case even in physical delivery mode by adding a 'single IPI
delivery' callback to the genapic methods. That could be used by the
reschedule IPI for example.

Ingo
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