Satyam Sharma wrote:
And I think what's proposed is: 1. Change smp_call_function() semantics, to run given function on _all_ CPUs (thus getting rid of the on_each_cpu() "mistake") 2. Resort to (most probably implement another function?) using smp_call_function_mask() or flags appropriately to also serve the use cases where we need to run a given function on all _other_ CPUs Does this pointless/gratuitous code-churn really make sense? Definitely not to me ...
It's not proposed. Andi mentioned it in passing. The only churn is in this thread.
[ For the _single() case we now have on_cpu() as you originally proposed, which I definitely like and fills the other gap in the API. ] So I still don't quite understand what is the need to change existing semantics of smp_call_function{_single} in the first place.
I imagine Andi's motivation was that most uses benefit from this change, and the rest don't suffer. It's better not to have a proliferation of ever-so-similar APIs.
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