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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Use mmu_gather for fork() instead of flush_tlb_mm()
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:29:00 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4691FFDC.5020808@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1183972349.5961.25.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 17:39 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
> 
>>Would it be better off to start off with a new API for this? The
>>mmu gather I think is traditionally entirely for dealing with
>>page removal...
> 
> 
> It would be weird because the new API would mostly duplicate this one,
> and we would end up with duplicated hooks..

They could just #define one to the other though, there are only a small
number of them. Is there a downside to not making them distinct? i386
for example probably would just keep doing a tlb flush for fork and not
want to worry about touching the tlb gather stuff.

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SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-09  9:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-09  3:47 removing flush_tlb_mm as a generic hook ? Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-07-09  6:36 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-07-09  6:45   ` [RFC/PATCH] Use mmu_gather for fork() instead of flush_tlb_mm() Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-07-09  7:39     ` Nick Piggin
2007-07-09  9:12       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-07-09  9:29         ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2007-07-09  9:47           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-07-09 10:12             ` Nick Piggin
2007-07-09 10:18               ` Nick Piggin
2007-07-09 12:37                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-07-09 12:32               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-07-09  6:46   ` [RFC/PATCH] Use mmu_gather for /proc stuff " Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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