Re: [RFT] mmu optimizations branch

Ingo Molnar
2007-01-03T11:30:44Z

* Avi Kivity <avi-atKUWr5tajBWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> A question. What's __flush_tlb() doing in the context switch path?
> Shouldn't it just load the new cr3 and be done with it?

hmm .... it /does/ use load_cr3, which uses write_cr3(). Maybe i'm wrong
about this analysis and the 'speedup' was a cache alignment fluke ...

Ingo