Re: [PATCH v4 5/7] x86/tlb: add tlb flush all factor for specificCPU

From: Alex Shi
Date: Thu May 10 2012 - 20:51:00 EST


On 05/10/2012 05:38 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> On Thu, 2012-05-10 at 13:00 +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
>
>
>> +void intel_tlb_flushall_factor_set(struct cpuinfo_x86 *c)
>> +{
>> + if (!cpu_has_invlpg) {
>> + tlb_flushall_factor = -1;
>> + return;
>> + }
>
> ...
>
>> + if (!cpu_has_invlpg || vma->vm_flags & VM_HUGETLB
>> + || tlb_flushall_factor == (u16)TLB_FLUSH_ALL)
>> {
>> flush_all:
>
> Since you set tlb_flushall_factor (I'd have called it _shift) to -1
> when !invlpg there's a redundant check in there.
>



NO, the first judgement is from CPU. But second '-1' is may from user
setting in sysfs.
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