From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 12:30:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 12:30:33 -0500 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:15635 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 12:30:27 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 18:30:58 +0100 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Giuliano Pochini Cc: Benjamin LaHaise , Linus Torvalds , "David S. Miller" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rik van Riel Subject: Re: please revert bogus patch to vmscan.c Message-ID: <20011030183058.O1340@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20011030175417.K1340@athlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.12i In-Reply-To: ; from pochini@shiny.it on Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 06:23:26PM +0100 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 06:23:26PM +0100, Giuliano Pochini wrote: > > >> #ifdef ? > > > > yes, but not for ppc, for alpha and all other archs without accessed bit > > provided in hardware (and cached in the tlb). > > PPCs have that bits. I'm not sure if they are cached in the tbl. yes, this is why it won't need to define the HAVE_NO_ACCESS_BIT_IN_TLB, only alpha will. but again I'm not sure if it worth given we just reduced the flush frequency of an order of magnitude. Andrea