Re: [PATCH 8/10] mips: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls

[Jens Axboe]

On Thu, May 29 2008, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:58:22AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> 
> > This converts mips to use the new helpers for smp_call_function() and
> > friends, and adds support for smp_call_function_single(). Not tested,
> > but it compiles.
> > 
> > mips shares the same IPI for smp_call_function() and
> > smp_call_function_single(), since not all hardware has enough available
> > IPIs available to support seperate setups.
> 
> FYI, the comment isn't quite accurate.  The machanisms for IPIs on MIPS
> are platform-specific.  The change which I recently objected to was
> specific to a code model called VSMP.

So s/hardware/platform and you are happy?

-- 
Jens Axboe

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