Re: Any reason for passing "tlb" to "free_pgtables()" by address?

Zoltan Menyhart
2006-05-08T21:50:19Z

Hugh Dickins wrote:

> Personally I'd prefer not to make your change right now - it seems
> a shame to make that cosmetic change without addressing the real
> latency issue; but I've no strong feeling against your patch.

Could you please explain what your plans are?

How much do you think it is worth to optimize "free_pgtables()",
knowing that:
- PTE, PMD and PUD pages are freed seldom (wrt. the leaf pages)
- The number of these pages is much more less than
that of the leaf pages.