From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Given Subject: Re: INVLPG question Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:46:43 +0000 Message-ID: <4EBECD23.3080902@cowlark.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig485A3B7816BA141409E9FFA1" Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig485A3B7816BA141409E9FFA1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 12/11/11 18:57, Xin Tong wrote: [...] > 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/ --=20 =E2=94=8C=E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80 =EF=BD=84=EF=BD=87=EF=BC=A0=EF=BD=83= =EF=BD=8F=EF=BD=97=EF=BD=8C=EF=BD=81=EF=BD=92=EF=BD=8B=EF=BC=8E=EF=BD=83=EF= =BD=8F=EF=BD=8D =E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80 http://www.= cowlark.com =E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80=E2=94=80 =E2=94=82 =E2=94=82 "Under communism, man exploits man. Under capitalism, it's just= the =E2=94=82 opposite." --- John Kenneth Galbrith --------------enig485A3B7816BA141409E9FFA1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iD8DBQFOvs0mf9E0noFvlzgRApLKAKDZxzp5lAbOWxcJ2SUGRVwIRI7y/QCfQwgc GRUJ5y74L6AMII19+oNQXbk= =TA6n -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig485A3B7816BA141409E9FFA1--