On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:30:58PM -0700, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> In situations where page table updates need only be made locally, and there
> is no cross-processor A/D bit races involved, we need not use the heavyweight
> xchg instruction to atomically fetch and clear page table entries. Instead,
> we can just read and clear them directly.
> > This introduces a neat optimization for non-SMP kernels; drop the atomic
> xchg operations from page table updates.
Would it be feasible to do this using the smp_alternatives stuff?
Given many distros are now shipping SMP-only kernels, it'd be nice
to get that win without using having to rebuild their kernels.