From: David Given <dg@cowlark.com>
To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: INVLPG question
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:46:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EBECD23.3080902@cowlark.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALKntY3-7r6JMsK8iH3uu2ecKJgn-8RZp_wavc6KE6frzvJFKw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 12/11/11 18:57, Xin Tong wrote:
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> When a process has a page fault and Linux swaps out a page from
> another process and give it to the page-faulting process. Typically a
> INVLPG is used to invalidate entries in the TLB. I would like to know
> whether INVLPG is global ( i.e. across all cores )?
Last I looked the 8086 didn't have a TLB, or page faults of any
description, and I'm pretty sure that nobody's built a multicore
8086-based machine, so I suspect you might have the wrong mailing list.
You may have better luck here:
http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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2011-11-12 18:57 INVLPG question Xin Tong
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