Re: [PATCH 04 of 12] Moves all mmu notifier methods outside the PT lock (first and not last

Andrea Arcangeli
2008-04-23T18:16:51Z

On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:02:18AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> We have had this workaround effort done years ago and have been
> suffering the ill effects of pinning for years. Had to deal with

Yes. In addition to the pinning, there's lot of additional tlb
flushing work to do in kvm without mmu notifiers as the swapcache
could be freed by the vm the instruction after put_page unpins the
page for whatever reason.