Re: [patch] smp tlb flushing

Marko Schulz (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Sat, 11 Sep 1999 19:57:01 +0200 (CEST)


On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> Unfortunately kswapd calls it without the mm semaphore and since the

just a sidenote, the kswapd rules wrt. scanning user-pagedirectories (and
other vm-structures) without the vm locks held are really subtle and
unrobust i think. Are they really worth (performance-wise) the effort? It
wouldnt be the first case that we have a bug in that area.

-- mingo

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