Re: [Linux-ia64] [PATCH] move mmu_gathers into local_cpu_data

Martin Hicks
2003-04-22T21:22:19Z

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

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