Re: [patch 3/7] softirq: avoid softirq_work_list for SCHED_SOFTIRQwhen sent remotely

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Thu May 20 2010 - 04:23:20 EST


On Thu, May 20 2010, David Miller wrote:
> From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 10:12:39 +0200
>
> > Most odd all that, Dave, Jens, what happened to all that remote_softirq
> > stuff?
>
> Nobody ended up using this remote softirq infrastructure, it can be
> completely deleted.

What parts of it? There has been reworks of parts of the code since I
added it, the block layer only uses __smp_call_function_single() to
trigger remote softirqs.

--
Jens Axboe

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