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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 6/7] x86/tlb: optimizing flush_tlb_mm
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On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 19:52 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
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> It could be warranted to change tlb_flush_mmu to a range API to
> avoid doing the per-entry tracking which those architectures do?

The per-entry could result in a much smaller range, there's no point in
flushing tlbs for unpopulated pages.

Anyway, I don't think even think we'd need to change the API for that,
you could track the entire range through tlb_start_vma() if you wanted
(although nobody does that IIRC).


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