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From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: rohitseth@google.com, Mike Stroyan <mike.stroyan@hp.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>,
	"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fw: [PATCH] ia64: race flushing icache in do_no_page path
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 13:04:40 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4632B9C8.40400@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4632AAB4.6030303@yahoo.com.au>

Nick Piggin wrote:

> What if you were to say remove all the PG_arch_1 code, and do something
> really simple like flush icache in flush_dcache_page? Would performance
> suffer horribly?

OIC, you need a virtual address to evict the icache, so you can't
flush at flush_dcache time? Or does ia64 have an instruction to
flush the whole icache? (it would be worth testing, to see how much
performance suffers).

-- 
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-28  3:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20070425205548.fd51b301.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-26  7:53 ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-26 17:35   ` Mike Stroyan
2007-04-27 11:55     ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-27 14:18       ` Hugh Dickins
2007-04-27 17:02         ` David Mosberger-Tang
2007-04-28  1:31         ` Rohit Seth
2007-04-28  5:34           ` Hugh Dickins
2007-04-28 18:17             ` Rohit Seth
2007-05-01 11:52               ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-02  0:36                 ` Rohit Seth
2007-05-02  2:05                   ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-28  2:16         ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-28  1:24       ` Rohit Seth
2007-04-28  2:00         ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-28  3:04           ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2007-04-28  5:20             ` Hugh Dickins
2007-04-28  6:03               ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-28 18:30                 ` Rohit Seth
2007-05-01 11:47                   ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-02  0:36                     ` Rohit Seth
2007-04-28 18:05               ` Rohit Seth
2007-05-01 11:43                 ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-04 21:32                   ` Mike Stroyan
2007-04-28  4:11           ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-28 17:57           ` Rohit Seth
2007-05-01 11:39             ` Nick Piggin
2007-05-02  0:36               ` Rohit Seth
2007-05-02  1:57                 ` Nick Piggin
2007-07-04 14:24 Zoltan Menyhart
2007-07-04 16:58 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2007-07-05  8:57   ` Zoltan Menyhart
2007-07-05 17:36     ` Mike Stroyan

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