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Date:      Thu, 18 Sep 2008 10:27:51 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Marius Strobl <marius@freebsd.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sparc64/include smp.h src/sys/sparc64/sparc64 genassym.c mp_machdep.c
Message-ID:  <200809181027.51997.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <200809181356.m8IDuaxT089888@repoman.freebsd.org>
References:  <200809181356.m8IDuaxT089888@repoman.freebsd.org>

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On Thursday 18 September 2008 09:56:30 am Marius Strobl wrote:
> marius      2008-09-18 13:56:30 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD src repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     sys/sparc64/include  smp.h 
>     sys/sparc64/sparc64  genassym.c mp_machdep.c 
>   Log:
>   SVN rev 183142 on 2008-09-18 13:56:30Z by marius
>   
>   - Newer firmware versions no longer provide SUNW,stop-self so just
>     disable interrupts and loop forever with these.
>   - Hide all MP-related bits in <machine/smp.h> underneath #ifdef SMP.
>   - Inline ipi_all_but_self(9) and ipi_selected(9). We don't expose any
>     additional bits but save a few cycles by doing so.
>   - Remove ipi_all(9), which actually only called panic(9). It can't be
>     implemented natively anyway and having it removed at least causes
>     MI users to fail already fail when linking.

Should we just remove ipi_all() completely?

-- 
John Baldwin



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