From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Hicks Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 21:22:19 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] [PATCH] move mmu_gathers into local_cpu_data Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 09:39:38PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 02:23:31PM -0400, Martin Hicks wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > This is a patch that moves mmu_gathers into local_cpu_data on IA64 NUMA. > > I'm not exactly sure where to push this patch, because it does touch > > include/asm-generic/tlb.h although it has no effect on non ia64 arches. > > > > The main reason for making this change is that the mmu_gathers array > > gets very large as the number of processors increases. > > For 2.5 please just make mmu_gathers per-cpu data for all arches. > That was my intention. For 2.4 my goal was "touch as little as possible, and hopefully it will get accepted". mh -- Wild Open Source Inc. mort@wildopensource.com