linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/11] x86: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls

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Message-ID: <20080422084738.GB2388@elte.hu>
Date:	Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:47:39 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
Cc:	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	npiggin@...e.de, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/11] x86: convert to generic helpers for IPI function
	calls


* Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com> wrote:

> This converts x86 and x86-64 to use the new helpers for 
> smp_call_function() and friends, and adds support for 
> smp_call_function_single().

nice stuff. The x86 and generic bits:

 Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>

this has been brewing for months, what is the testing/confidence status 
of it? Could we still merge it into v2.6.26? (i think we should)

	Ingo
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