Re: [QUICKLIST 3/4] Quicklist support for x86_64
From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon Apr 09 2007 - 14:53:26 EST
On Monday 09 April 2007 20:51:00 Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > > It has to be done in sync with tlb flushing.
> >
> > Why?
>
> Otherwise you will leak pages to the page allocator before the tlb flush
> occurred.
I don't get it sorry. Can you please explain in more detail?
-Andi
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