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From: Dave Liu <r63238@freescale.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@gate.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: fsl booke MM vs. SMP questions
Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 18:56:15 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1179831375.3827.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1179803367.32247.785.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 13:09 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> In the end, the best solution might still be to simply not do any of
> this and instead send an IPI on invalidations. That's the method used by
> most architectures in linux (if not all) that do software TLB load on
> SMP. Basically, the invalidate code path then does:
> 
> 	- Update the linux PTE
> 	- write barrier
> 	- send IPI interrupt to all CPUs in mm->cpu_vm_mask
> 	- local TLB flush
> 
> And the IPI does a local TLB flush on all affected CPUs.

How to avoid IPI interrupt missing if the IPI interrupt is edge-
triggered?

or How to make sure TLB flushed on the else all affected CPUs?

-d

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-22 10:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-21  7:06 fsl booke MM vs. SMP questions Benjamin Herrenschmidt
     [not found] ` <1179741447.3660.7.camel@localhost.localdomain>
     [not found]   ` <1179742083.32247.689.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2007-05-21 11:37     ` Dave Liu
2007-05-21 22:07       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-22  3:09         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-22 10:56           ` Dave Liu [this message]
2007-05-22 22:42             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-23  2:38               ` Dave Liu
2007-05-23  3:08                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-28  9:05                   ` Liu Dave-r63238
2007-05-28  9:24                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-28  9:37                       ` Liu Dave-r63238
2007-05-28 10:00                         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-28 10:23                           ` Gabriel Paubert
2007-05-28 10:28                             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-22  8:46         ` Gabriel Paubert
2007-05-22  9:14           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-22 10:02             ` Gabriel Paubert
2007-05-22 10:05               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-05-23  9:12                 ` Gabriel Paubert
2007-05-22  3:03 ` Kumar Gala

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