Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] Implement MMU_LAZY_TLB_SHOOTDOWN for alpha

["Nicholas Piggin" <npiggin@gmail.com>]

On Thu May 25, 2023 at 3:52 AM AEST, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 1:28 PM Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 10:18 AM Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Any thoughts about the series would be interesting to hear.
> >
> > Well, alpha is in a deathmatch with ia64 on "least relevant
> > architecture ever, and next to be removed".
> >
> > There are no winners in that match.

Except that I don't get yelled at by so many people when things break.
Why do you think I work on powerpc? (/s, kind of).

At least it's a reference, hopefully we can get a bit more interest. If
we get a few converted then we could find some common patterns and pull
them into generic code or at least a simpler recipe as we try to convert
everything and just make this the only way it's implemented. Of course
we need the big archs on board at some point.

> > I still have the alpha architecture manual somewhere here, but I
> > haven't touched any actual hardware in decades.
> >
> > But I certainly don't see anything _wrong_ with your series from a
> > quick read-through.  It would be nice to hear that it works on real
> > hardware, of course, but from previous attempts, there's only a couple
> > of people that still occasionally run it.
>
> I'll be happy to test.

Thanks Matt, I'll put a git tree up and ping you.

Thanks,
Nick