Re: [BUGFIX]{PATCH] flush icache on ia64 take2

From: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Date: Thu Jul 19 2007 - 10:53:18 EST


On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:15:03 +0200
Zoltan Menyhart <Zoltan.Menyhart@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> We may have, say 1 Gbyte / sec local i/o activity (using some RAIDs).
> Assume a few % of this 1 Gbyte is the program execution, or program swap in.
> It gives some hundreds of new exec pages / sec =>
> some msec-s can be lost each sec.
>
> I can agree that it should not be a big deal :-)
>
Hmm...but the current code flushes the page. just do it in "lazy" way.
much difference ?

-Kame
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