Re: [PATCH V3 2/6] powerpc: Implement broadcast timer interrupt as an IPI message

2013-09-11 Thread Geoff Levand
On Wed, 2013-09-11 at 08:21 +0530, Preeti U Murthy wrote: > arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/smp.c|2 +- The PS3 part is trivial and looks OK. Acked-by: Geoff Levand ___ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlab

[PATCH V3 2/6] powerpc: Implement broadcast timer interrupt as an IPI message

2013-09-10 Thread Preeti U Murthy
From: Srivatsa S. Bhat For scalability and performance reasons, we want the broadcast IPIs to be handled as efficiently as possible. Fixed IPI messages are one of the most efficient mechanisms available - they are faster than the smp_call_function mechanism because the IPI handlers are fixed and