linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] msr.c: use smp_call_function

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Message-ID: <45AFFA85.7040000@zytor.com>
Date:	Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:53:57 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...nvz.org>
CC:	akpm@...l.org, devel@...nvz.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] msr.c: use smp_call_function_single()

Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> It will execute rdmsr and wrmsr only on the cpu we need.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...nvz.org>

This is good, but a bit incomplete; see other message recently posted to 
LKML.  Since this affects paravirtualization I want to minimize the 
number of changes.

	-hpa
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