Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 11 Sep 1999 03:36:40 -0700 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: linux threads vs. solaris threads |
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Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 02:50:04 -0700 From: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
Almost all (maybe 100%) modern hardware has context ids in the TLB.
Unfortunately, the cpu with the largest market share, x86, does not.
So if you aren't context switching between threads sharing the same address space, the whole TLB is in fact flushed.
But other than x86, I cannot think of any other cpu in use today which does not have TLB context ids.
Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com
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