x86: numachip: Elide self-IPI ICR polling

The default self-IPI path polls the ICR to delay sending the IPI until
there is no IPI in progress. This is redundant on x86-86 APICs, since
IPIs are queued. See the AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual, vol 2,
p525.

Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman <[email protected]>
Cc: Steffen Persvold <[email protected]>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>

diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic_numachip.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic_numachip.c
index 2aaee79fb129103e05430b6de3f1bf2e441e8bed..7a3191232630bc259f50e9510251811d7d260a06 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic_numachip.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/apic_numachip.c
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ static void numachip_send_IPI_all(int vector)
 
 static void numachip_send_IPI_self(int vector)
 {
-       __default_send_IPI_shortcut(APIC_DEST_SELF, vector, APIC_DEST_PHYSICAL);
+       apic_write(APIC_SELF_IPI, vector);
 }
 
 static int __init numachip_probe(void)