Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:29:18 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: x86: Is there still value in having a special tlb flush IPI vector? |
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Andi Kleen wrote: >>> Now that normal smp_function_call is no longer an enormous bottleneck, >>> > > Hmm? It still uses a global lock at least as of current git tree.
Yes, but it's only held briefly to put things onto the list. It doesn't get held over the whole IPI transaction as the old smp_call_function did, and the tlb flush code still does. RCU is used to manage the list walk and freeing, so there's no long-held locks there either.
J
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