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From: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 001/001] mmu-notifier-core v17
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 15:01:13 -0500
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To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
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On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 09:32:30PM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@qumranet.com>
> 
> With KVM/GFP/XPMEM there isn't just the primary CPU MMU pointing to
> pages. There are secondary MMUs (with secondary sptes and secondary
> tlbs) too. sptes in the kvm case are shadow pagetables, but when I say
> spte in mmu-notifier context, I mean "secondary pte". In GRU case
> there's no actual secondary pte and there's only a secondary tlb
> because the GRU secondary MMU has no knowledge about sptes and every
> secondary tlb miss event in the MMU always generates a page fault that
> has to be resolved by the CPU (this is not the case of KVM where the a
> secondary tlb miss will walk sptes in hardware and it will refill the
>...

FYI, I applied to patch to a tree that has the GRU driver. All regression
tests passed.

--- jack