Re: Bottom Handles/soft irqs/timer interrupts/SMP .....

[Anton Blanchard]

 
> > 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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