Re: [RFC/PATCH] Use mmu_gather for fork() instead of flush_tlb_mm()

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Mon Jul 09 2007 - 05:47:51 EST


On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 19:29 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> They could just #define one to the other though, there are only a
> small
> number of them. Is there a downside to not making them distinct? i386
> for example probably would just keep doing a tlb flush for fork and
> not
> want to worry about touching the tlb gather stuff.

But the tlb gather stuff just does ... a flush_tlb_mm() on x86 :-)

I really think it's the right API

Ben.


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