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DateTue, 18 Dec 2007 15:26:42 +0900
FromKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] ia64: Avoid unnecessary TLB flushes when allocating memory
On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:00:15 -0500
Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 10:05:45AM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:03:07 +0000
> > 
> > > +       if (mm != active_mm) {
> > > +               /* Restore region IDs for mm */
> > > +               if (mm && active_mm) {
> > > +                       activate_context(mm);
> > > +               } else {
> > > +                       flush_tlb_all();
> > > +                       return;
> > > +               }
> > >         }
> > should be 
> > 
> 
> platform_global_tlb_purge is already (and afaict, only) called under
> preempt_disable already. then again, the sn2 global_tlb_purge
> does it, so possibly for completeness sake it should be added here as
> well?
> 
Thank you. I see. flush_tlb_range() is the only caller.

...maybe adding comment is helpful (for me :).

Thanks,
-Kame



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