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Re: wrapping (some) ipis in arch/x86/



christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas) wrote:
> In article <8762m4qlm8.fsf%zyx.in@localhost>, Cherry G. Mathew  
> <cherry%zyx.in@localhost>
> wrote:
> >ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/cherry/tmp/wrap_ipi.diff
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >I'd like to ask peoples' opinions about the above patch. This would
> >remove a couple of #ifdef XEN/#endif pairs I had to introduce
> >lately. 
> 
> If those are performance critical, perhaps they should be inlined?
> 

IPIs are relatively expensive operations, there are no need to inline
the routines at all.

-- 
Mindaugas


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