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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Dong Feng <middle.fengdong@gmail.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The 3G (or nG) Kernel Memory Space Offset
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:44:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44F46EF9.2090000@goop.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0608291828540.8682@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> Since it's all just virtual addresses, is the TLB flush really that much 
> different when kernelspace runs from (virtual) 0x00000000-0x3FFFFFFF rather 
> than (virtual)0xC000000-0xFFFFFFFF?
>   

If kernel and userspace are disjoint, they can be in the same address 
space, so there's no need for a TLB flush at all.

    J

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-29 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-29 14:15 The 3G (or nG) Kernel Memory Space Offset Dong Feng
2006-08-29 14:32 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-29 14:36 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-29 16:01   ` Dong Feng
2006-08-29 16:05     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-29 16:30       ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-08-29 16:44         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge [this message]
2006-08-29 16:12     ` Christoph Lameter
2006-08-29 16:16       ` Dong Feng
2006-08-29 16:42     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-29 18:37       ` Peter Grandi
2006-08-29 21:15         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2006-08-30  6:11           ` Jan Engelhardt
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2006-08-30  4:32 linux

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