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SubjectRe: Could we do immediate pte zaps in vunmap?
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 12:10:51AM -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> What if vm_unmap_ram() and co. immediately zeroed out the ptes, but
> lazily deferred the tlb flushes? It seems to me there's no benefit in
> batching up the pte clearing since that can't be amortized like the tlb
> flush.

Yes that can be done.


> I think that would solve the problem we have with the interactions
> between lazy unmap and Xen. The issue is having stray pte entries
> around (because Xen keeps track of those as part of its page-type
> mechanism), but stale tlb entries are no problem.

It would be great if that solves it.


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