x86, UV: BAU broadcast to the local hub
Make the Broadcast Assist Unit driver use the BAU for TLB shootdowns of cpu's on the local uvhub. It was previously thought that IPI might be faster to the cpu's on the local hub. But the IPI operation would have to follow the completion of the BAU broadcast anyway. So we broadcast to the local uvhub in all cases except when the current cpu was the only local cpu in the mask. This simplifies uv_flush_send_and_wait() in that it returns either all shootdowns complete, or none. Adjust the statistics to account for shootdowns on the local uvhub. Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com> Cc: gregkh@suse.de LKML-Reference: <E1OJvNy-0004aq-G7@eag09.americas.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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