[lm-sensors] [RFC] new MSR r/w functions per CPU
H. Peter Anvin
hpa at zytor.com
Wed Dec 13 23:45:19 CET 2006
Dave Jones wrote:
>
> Can you explain this a little further? I'm fairly certain
> there are places in the kernel already doing this (or similar).
> In fact, I cut-n-pasted most of the above from similar code in the
> powernow-k8 driver. What exactly can we deadlock on?
>
I wanted to change the MSR driver to do the above, and Alan Cox objected
that with realtime priority routines and/or user set affinity, that code
might never be executed, so I retained the IPI-based code (which
executes at the target processor at interrupt priority.)
-hpa
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