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On Sat, 20 Jun 1998, David S. Miller wrote:

> I assumed that TSS switches were defined to reload csr3, which by
> definition flushes the TLB of user entires.
>
> Thats broken, not because it's a silly workaround for the Intel TLB
> mis-design, but rather because it changes behavior from what older
> CPU's did. So if someone optimized things to defer TLB flushes for
> mapping changes, when they knew they would task switch once before
> running the task again, this "microcode optimization" would break the
> behavior such a trick would depend upon.

unless this deferred TLB flush feature gets into 2.1, i plan on making a
new version of the softswitch stuff (that replaces TSS switching) for 2.3,
which should give us more pronounced control over TLB flushes and more ...

-- mingo


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