From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Page aging broken in 2.6
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 11:45:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FEC1142.7050803@colorfullife.com> (raw)
Ben wrote:
>I can imagine that an architecture with TLBs will usually evict
>the entry from the TLB sooner or later and the accessed bit will end
>up beeing set again. On PPC, that isn't the case, the entry can well
>stay a loooong time in the hash and if not evicted, _PAGE_ACCESSED
>will never be set again.
>
One risk for i386 are the huge tlbs that AMD uses (512 entries?) - hot
pages might stay in the TLB forever.
>Or does it snoop accesses
>to the PTE to "catch" somebody clearing the bits ?
>
No. AMD K8 cpu partially snoop PDE/PTE accesses and ignore tlb flush
instructions if they are certain that the tlb is valid, but I'm not
aware that anyone snoops the complete tlb cache.
--
Manfred
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-26 10:45 Manfred Spraul [this message]
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2003-12-26 7:28 Page aging broken in 2.6 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-12-26 7:40 ` Andrew Morton
2003-12-26 9:21 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-12-26 9:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-12-26 19:44 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-12-26 9:33 ` Russell King
2003-12-26 10:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-12-26 17:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-26 23:55 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-12-27 0:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-27 0:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-12-27 0:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-27 0:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-27 1:03 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-12-27 2:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-12-27 5:02 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-12-27 10:16 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-27 2:47 ` Rik van Riel
2003-12-27 3:00 ` Andrew Morton
2003-12-27 3:31 ` Rik van Riel
2003-12-27 3:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-27 16:34 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-12-27 23:07 ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-27 23:55 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-28 11:23 ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-28 16:35 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-28 17:15 ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-28 0:04 ` Andrew Morton
2003-12-28 11:58 ` Roger Luethi
2003-12-27 1:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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