Re: page fault fastpath: Increasing SMP scalability by introducing

Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-08-17T08:01:39Z

> Is this the _PAGE_BUSY bit? The pte update routines on PPC64 seem to spin
> on that bit when it is set waiting for the hash value update to complete.
> Looks very specific to the PPC64 architecture.

Yes, it is, I was thinking it's use could be extended tho

Ben.