Revision 01599fca6758d2cd133e78f87426fc851c9ea725 authored by Andrew Morton on 13 April 2009, 17:27:49 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 13 April 2009, 18:09:46 UTC
Atttempting to rid us of the problematic work_on_cpu().  Just use
smp_call_fuction_single() here.

This repairs a 10% sysbench(oltp)+mysql regression which Mike reported,
due to

  commit 6b44003e5ca66a3fffeb5bc90f40ada2c4340896
  Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
  Date:   Thu Apr 9 09:50:37 2009 -0600

      work_on_cpu(): rewrite it to create a kernel thread on demand

It seems that the kernel calls these acpi-cpufreq functions at a quite
high frequency.

Valdis Kletnieks also reports that this causes 70-90 forks per second on
his hardware.

Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
[ Made it use smp_call_function_many() instead of looping over cpu's
  with smp_call_function_single()    - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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History
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Kconfig -rw-r--r-- 2.4 KB
Kconfig.iosched -rw-r--r-- 1.9 KB
Makefile -rw-r--r-- 582 bytes
as-iosched.c -rw-r--r-- 38.7 KB
blk-barrier.c -rw-r--r-- 9.8 KB
blk-core.c -rw-r--r-- 58.1 KB
blk-exec.c -rw-r--r-- 2.7 KB
blk-integrity.c -rw-r--r-- 9.9 KB
blk-ioc.c -rw-r--r-- 4.0 KB
blk-map.c -rw-r--r-- 8.0 KB
blk-merge.c -rw-r--r-- 10.1 KB
blk-settings.c -rw-r--r-- 14.7 KB
blk-softirq.c -rw-r--r-- 4.1 KB
blk-sysfs.c -rw-r--r-- 10.5 KB
blk-tag.c -rw-r--r-- 9.8 KB
blk-timeout.c -rw-r--r-- 5.5 KB
blk.h -rw-r--r-- 3.4 KB
bsg.c -rw-r--r-- 23.3 KB
cfq-iosched.c -rw-r--r-- 58.5 KB
cmd-filter.c -rw-r--r-- 5.4 KB
compat_ioctl.c -rw-r--r-- 21.6 KB
deadline-iosched.c -rw-r--r-- 11.4 KB
elevator.c -rw-r--r-- 27.1 KB
genhd.c -rw-r--r-- 28.4 KB
ioctl.c -rw-r--r-- 8.6 KB
noop-iosched.c -rw-r--r-- 2.6 KB
scsi_ioctl.c -rw-r--r-- 16.9 KB

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