Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: page fault fastpath: Increasing SMP scalability by introducing pte locks? | | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | | Date | Tue, 17 Aug 2004 18:01:39 +1000 |
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> Is this the _PAGE_BUSY bit? The pte update routines on PPC64 seem to spin > on that bit when it is set waiting for the hash value update to complete. > Looks very specific to the PPC64 architecture.
Yes, it is, I was thinking it's use could be extended tho
Ben.
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