Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH] Use mmu_gather for fork() instead of flush_tlb_mm() | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:47:38 +1000 |
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On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 19:29 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote: > They could just #define one to the other though, there are only a > small > number of them. Is there a downside to not making them distinct? i386 > for example probably would just keep doing a tlb flush for fork and > not > want to worry about touching the tlb gather stuff.
But the tlb gather stuff just does ... a flush_tlb_mm() on x86 :-)
I really think it's the right API
Ben.
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