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SubjectRe: [PATCH 8/10] mips: convert to generic helpers for IPI function calls
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:58:22AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:

> This converts mips to use the new helpers for smp_call_function() and
> friends, and adds support for smp_call_function_single(). Not tested,
> but it compiles.
>
> mips shares the same IPI for smp_call_function() and
> smp_call_function_single(), since not all hardware has enough available
> IPIs available to support seperate setups.

FYI, the comment isn't quite accurate. The machanisms for IPIs on MIPS
are platform-specific. The change which I recently objected to was
specific to a code model called VSMP.

Raf


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