From: Avi Kivity <avi@argo.co.il>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [RFT][PATCH 0/2] pagefault scalability alternative
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 01:10:47 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4310E4E7.1040800@argo.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0508230909120.16321@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Christoph Lameter wrote:
>>A spinlock per page table, not a spinlock per page table entry.
>>
>>
>
>Thats a spinlock per pmd? Calling it per page table is a bit confusing
>since page table may refer to the whole tree. Could you develop
>a clearer way of referring to these locks that is not page_table_lock or
>ptl?
>
>
I've heard the term "paging element" used to describe the p*t's.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-27 22:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-22 21:27 Hugh Dickins
2005-08-22 21:29 ` [RFT][PATCH 1/2] " Hugh Dickins
2005-08-22 21:31 ` [RFT][PATCH 2/2] " Hugh Dickins
2005-08-23 0:25 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-23 7:22 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-23 11:20 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-23 13:06 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-23 13:29 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-23 16:38 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-23 5:39 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-23 7:01 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-22 22:29 ` [RFT][PATCH 0/2] " Christoph Lameter
2005-08-23 0:32 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-23 7:04 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-23 8:14 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-23 10:03 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-23 16:30 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-08-23 16:43 ` Martin J. Bligh
2005-08-23 18:29 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-27 22:10 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2005-08-24 14:27 linux
2005-08-24 15:21 ` Hugh Dickins
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