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| author | Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 2011-05-25 23:34:12 +0000 |
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| committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2011-06-20 11:21:32 +1000 |
| commit | 9ca980dce523760ce04a798470d36fd5aa596b78 (patch) | |
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| parent | 7ac87abb8166b99584149fcfb2efef5773a078e9 (diff) | |
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powerpc: Avoid extra indirect function call in sending IPIs
On many platforms (including pSeries), smp_ops->message_pass is always
smp_muxed_ipi_message_pass. This changes arch/powerpc/kernel/smp.c so
that if smp_ops->message_pass is NULL, it calls smp_muxed_ipi_message_pass
directly.
This means that a platform doesn't need to set both .message_pass and
.cause_ipi, only one of them. It is a slight performance improvement
in that it gets rid of an indirect function call at the expense of a
predictable conditional branch.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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