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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, olof@austin.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] .text page fault SMP scalability optimization
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:44:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051030144459.GB5074@opteron.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1130653052.29054.237.camel@gaston>

On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 05:17:31PM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> Note that we should really pass more than just "write_access" from the
> arch code. We could make good use of "execute" in some cases as well,

Indeed. Bitflags sounds the most efficient way to do that. Currently
write_access is 0/1 value only.

> also knowing wether this is a real fault or the result of
> get_user_pages() (in some case, the former could use more agressive TLB
> pre-loading, not the later). Finally, those infos should be passed to
> update_mmu_cache().

Interesting.

      reply	other threads:[~2005-10-30 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-19  7:52 [PATCH] .text page fault SMP scalability optimization Andrea Arcangeli
2005-10-19  8:14 ` Andrew Morton
2005-10-19  9:06   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-10-30  6:17     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2005-10-30 14:44       ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]

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