Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:14:41 -0800 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | What was the problem with quicklists and x86-64? |
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I'm looking at unifying the various pgalloc+pgd_lists mechanisms between 32-bit (PAE and non-PAE) and 64-bit, so I'm trying to understand why these differences exist in the first place.
Change da8f153e51290e7438ba7da66234a864e5d3e1c1 reverted the use of quicklists for allocating pagetables, because of concerns about ordering with respect to tlb flushes.
Some questions about this:
1. What's the difference between quicklists and normal page allocation with respect to tlb flushing? 2. Why doesn't this also affect i386's use of quicklists? 3. Is there some way to resolve this tlb interaction so that quicklists can be used? 4. Failing that, what's the cost of reverting i386's use of quicklists too?
Thanks, J
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