On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 00:35 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > > if the firmware doesn't support lockless TLBIE, we need to do locking > at the guest side. pSeries_lpar_flush_hash_range does that.
We don't "need" to ... it's an optimization because by experience the FW locking was horrible (and the HW locking is too). Beware however that the hash routines can take a lock too on "native" (instead of pHyp)... Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
