Hi,
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 04:12:18PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 12:37:05AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> > Basically establish_pte() has to be architecture specific, as some processors
> > need different orders either to avoid races or to handle cpu specific
> > limitations.
>
> What exactly do different architectures need which set_pte() doesn't
> already allow them to do magic in?
>
> Doing a properly synchronized PTE update and Cache/TLB flush when the
> mapping can exist on multiple processors is not most efficiently done
> if we take some generic setup.
OK, I'm sure there are optimisation issues, but I was worried about
correctness problems from what Alan said.
--Stephen
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