linux-kernel - Re: smp.c && barriers (Was: [PATCH 1/4] generic-smp: remove single ipi fallback for smp_call_function

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Date:	Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:43:40 -0800
From:	Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@...el.com>
To:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Cc:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arch@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: smp.c && barriers (Was: [PATCH 1/4] generic-smp: remove single
	ipi fallback for smp_call_function_many())

On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 05:59 -0800, Nick Piggin wrote:
> You're saying the problem is in generic_exec_single because I've
> removed the smp_mb that inadvertently also serialises memory with
> the x2apic on x86?

yes.

> 
> Indeed that could cause problems on some architectures which I
> had hoped to avoid. So the patch is probably better off to first
> add the smp_mb() to arch_send_call_function_xxx arch code, unless
> it is immediately obvious or confirmed by arch maintainer that
> such barrier is not required.

For x2apic specific operations we should add the smp_mb() sequence. But
we need to make sure that we don't end up doing it twice (once in
generic code and another in arch code) for all the ipi paths.

thanks,
suresh

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