On Thursday 31 January 2008 13:38:45 Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > On Thursday 31 January 2008 08:35:59 Huang, Ying wrote: > > > This patch replaces __change_page_attr_set_clr() with > > > change_page_attr_set_clr() in change_page_attr_clear() to flush the > > > TLB/cache properly. > > > > Good catch :-) It actually only needs to flush TLBs not caches in this > > case. > > That's one of the items on our optimizations todo list already. There > are more low hanging fruits, but we need to make sure that the non > optimized version is bullet proof first.
I actually ported it already forward from my old patchkit (together with some other improvements). Will post later. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
