From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@imgtec.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jason@lakedaemon.net,
marc.zyngier@arm.com, jiang.liu@linux.intel.com,
ralf@linux-mips.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/14] genirq: Add new struct ipi_mask and helper functions
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 13:05:58 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1511071305040.4032@nanos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1446549181-31788-5-git-send-email-qais.yousef@imgtec.com>
On Tue, 3 Nov 2015, Qais Yousef wrote:
> /**
> + * struct ipi_mask - IPI mask information
> + * @nbits: number of bits in cpumask
> + * @global: whether the mask is SMP IPI ie: subset of cpu_possible_mask or not
> + * @cpumask: cpumask to be used when the ipi_mask is global
> + * @cpu_bitmap: the cpu bitmap to use when the ipi_mask is not global
> + *
> + * ipi_mask is similar to cpumask, but it provides nbits that's configurable
> + * rather than fixed to NR_CPUS.
Can you please add an explanation why we want that to the comment?
Thanks,
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-11-07 12:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-11-03 11:12 [PATCH 00/14] Implement generic IPI support mechanism Qais Yousef
2015-11-03 11:12 ` [PATCH 01/14] genirq: Add new IRQ_DOMAIN_FLAGS_IPI Qais Yousef
2015-11-03 11:12 ` [PATCH 02/14] genirq: Add DOMAIN_BUS_IPI Qais Yousef
2015-11-03 11:12 ` [PATCH 03/14] genirq: Add GENERIC_IRQ_IPI Kconfig symbol Qais Yousef
2015-11-03 11:12 ` [PATCH 04/14] genirq: Add new struct ipi_mask and helper functions Qais Yousef
2015-11-07 12:05 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2015-11-03 11:12 ` [PATCH 05/14] genirq: Add struct ipi_mask to irq_data Qais Yousef
2015-11-03 11:12 ` [PATCH 06/14] genirq: Add struct ipi_mapping and its helper functions Qais Yousef
2015-11-07 12:09 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-11-09 10:05 ` Qais Yousef
2015-11-03 11:12 ` [PATCH 07/14] genirq: Add a new generic IPI reservation code to irq core Qais Yousef
2015-11-03 12:06 ` kbuild test robot
2015-11-07 12:11 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-11-07 13:31 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-11-09 10:07 ` Qais Yousef
2015-11-16 15:09 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-11-03 11:12 ` [PATCH 08/14] genirq: Add a new irq_send_ipi() to irq_chip Qais Yousef
2015-11-03 11:12 ` [PATCH 09/14] genirq: Implement irq_send_ipi() to be used by drivers Qais Yousef
2015-11-03 12:09 ` kbuild test robot
2015-11-07 12:14 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-11-03 11:12 ` [PATCH 10/14] irqchip/mips-gic: Add a IPI hierarchy domain Qais Yousef
2015-11-07 14:51 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-11-09 11:10 ` Qais Yousef
2015-11-16 17:17 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-11-17 10:08 ` Qais Yousef
2015-11-17 10:11 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-11-17 10:30 ` Qais Yousef
2015-11-20 10:48 ` Qais Yousef
2015-11-20 20:39 ` [PATCH 10/14] irqchip/mips-gic: Add a IPI hierarchy domaind Thomas Gleixner
2015-11-23 16:55 ` Qais Yousef
2015-11-12 15:12 ` [PATCH 10/14] irqchip/mips-gic: Add a IPI hierarchy domain Qais Yousef
2015-11-16 17:24 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-11-17 10:24 ` Qais Yousef
2015-11-17 10:30 ` Thomas Gleixner
2015-11-03 11:12 ` [PATCH 11/14] MIPS: Add generic SMP IPI support Qais Yousef
2015-11-03 11:12 ` [PATCH 12/14] MIPS: Make smp CMP, CPS and MT use the new generic IPI functions Qais Yousef
2015-11-03 11:13 ` [PATCH 13/14] MIPS: Delete smp-gic.c Qais Yousef
2015-11-03 11:13 ` [PATCH 14/14] Docs: IRQ: Add new IRQ-ipi.txt Qais Yousef
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