From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: "Tomar, Nagendra" <nagendra_tomar@adaptec.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why change_page_attr on x86 uses __flush_tlb_all
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:51:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3smf5ic38.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1Lek1-5lB-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (Nagendra Singh Tomar's message of "Thu, 15 Apr 2004 14:40:09 +0200")
Nagendra Singh Tomar <nagendra_tomar@adaptec.com> writes:
> I would expect __flush_tlb_one (for each page) as a better choice.
> It'll be nice if someone can hoghlight on why __flush_tlb_all is used.
> The kernel version I am referring from is 2.4.18-14
This works around a bug in some early Athlons with flushing global
large pages. Also it makes the code slightly simpler and change_page_attr
is not really performance critical.
-Andi
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2004-04-15 13:51 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-04-20 13:03 ` why change_page_attr on x86 uses __flush_tlb_all Pavel Machek
2004-04-15 12:32 Nagendra Singh Tomar
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