Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:46:27 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] Fix COW D-cache aliasing on fork | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 19:37:24 -0700 (PDT)
> On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, David Miller wrote: > > I think it could help for sun4m highmem configs. > > Well, if you can re-create the performance numbers (Ralf - can you send > the full series with the final "remove the now unnecessary flush" to > Davem?), that will make deciding things easier, I think. > > I suspect sparc, mips and arm are the main architectures where virtually > indexed caching really matters enough for this to be an issue at all.
Unfortunately, I don't have any sparc 32-bit systems any more, so I can't really help out here. I just make sure the build keeps working :-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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