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From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: PTE aging, ptep_test_and_clear_young() and TLB
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 13:36:11 +0100 (BST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0404181331240.20000-100000@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040418122344.A11293@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Russell King wrote:
> 
> So, I think we definitely need the flush there.  The available data
> so far from Marc appears to confirm this, and the theory surrounding
> ASID-based MMUs (which are coming on ARM) also require it.

I agree that we need to flush TLB more, that if we keep on ignoring a
hint forever then things go awry.  I disagree that it needs to be done
so immediately, in the young/referenced/accessed case.  But go ahead,
we can always optimize some of it out later on.

Hugh

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-18 12:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-17 20:15 Russell King
2004-04-17 20:43 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-18  9:36   ` Russell King
2004-04-18  9:39     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-18 10:58       ` Hugh Dickins
2004-04-18 11:23         ` Russell King
2004-04-18 12:36           ` Hugh Dickins [this message]
2004-04-18 12:42             ` Russell King
2004-04-18 19:55               ` Russell King
2004-04-18 20:01                 ` Russell King
2004-04-18 23:14                 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-04-18 23:34                   ` Russell King
2004-04-18 15:52         ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-18 10:42     ` Russell King
2004-04-18 15:12       ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-04-17 22:27 ` Hugh Dickins
2004-04-17 23:47   ` Anton Blanchard

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