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When sending an IPI to a single CPU there is no need to deal with cpumasks. With 2 CPU guest on WS2019 a minor (like 3%, 8043 -> 7761 CPU cycles) improvement with smp_call_function_single() loop benchmark can be seeb. The optimization, however, is tiny and straitforward. Also, send_ipi_one() is important for PV spinlock kick. Switching to the regular APIC IPI send for CPU > 64 case does not make sense as it is twice as expesive (12650 CPU cycles for __send_ipi_mask_ex() call, 26000 for orig_apic.send_IPI(cpu, vector)). Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Michael Kelley <mikelley@microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Roman Kagan <rkagan@virtuozzo.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191027151938.7296-1-vkuznets@redhat.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.