From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: Alex Shi <alex.shi@intel.com>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/7] x86/tlb: unify TLB_FLUSH_ALL definition
Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 13:46:54 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FAC0D1E.3000403@landley.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1336626013-28413-2-git-send-email-alex.shi@intel.com>
On 05/10/2012 12:00 AM, Alex Shi wrote:
> Since sizeof(long) is 4 in x86_32 mode, and it's 8 in x86_64 mode,
> sizeof(long long) is also 8 byte in x86_64 mode.
> use long mode can fit TLB_FLUSH_ALL defination here both in 32 or
> 64 bits mode.
I.E. Linux follows the LP64 standad, as do the BSDs and MacOS X:
http://www.unix.org/whitepapers/64bit.html
http://www.unix.org/version2/whatsnew/lp64_wp.html
Rob
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-10 21:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-10 5:00 [PATCH v4 0/7] tlb flush optimization Alex Shi
2012-05-10 5:00 ` [PATCH v4 1/7] x86/tlb: unify TLB_FLUSH_ALL definition Alex Shi
2012-05-10 18:46 ` Rob Landley [this message]
2012-05-11 18:33 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-10 5:00 ` [PATCH v4 2/7] x86/tlb_info: get last level TLB entry number of CPU Alex Shi
2012-05-10 14:43 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-11 0:33 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-10 15:58 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-11 0:38 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-10 5:00 ` [PATCH v4 3/7] x86/flush_tlb: try flush_tlb_single one by one in flush_tlb_range Alex Shi
2012-05-10 7:53 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-10 8:50 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-10 21:42 ` Rob Landley
2012-05-10 8:42 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-10 9:04 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-12 8:01 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-13 11:13 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-15 1:06 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-15 10:33 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-15 11:16 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-15 11:56 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-15 12:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-15 13:58 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-10 5:00 ` [PATCH v4 4/7] x86/tlb: fall back to flush all when meet a THP large page Alex Shi
2012-05-10 9:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-10 10:40 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-11 0:44 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-11 9:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-11 16:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2012-05-12 7:58 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-10 5:00 ` [PATCH v4 5/7] x86/tlb: add tlb flush all factor for specific CPU Alex Shi
2012-05-10 9:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-11 0:47 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-10 9:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-11 0:48 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-10 9:38 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-10 10:42 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-11 0:50 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-11 0:49 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-11 9:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-11 9:04 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-11 12:51 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-10 5:00 ` [PATCH v4 6/7] x86/tlb: optimizing flush_tlb_mm Alex Shi
2012-05-10 8:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-05-10 5:00 ` [PATCH v4 7/7] x86/tlb: add tlb_flushall_factor into sysfs for user testing/tuning Alex Shi
2012-05-10 8:27 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-11 0:52 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-11 9:51 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-05-11 12:53 ` Alex Shi
2012-05-10 15:13 ` Greg KH
2012-05-11 0:59 ` Alex Shi
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