Re: [PATCH 5/6] x86: mm: new tunable for single vs full TLB flush
From: Rik van Riel
Date: Tue Apr 22 2014 - 17:32:16 EST
On 04/21/2014 02:24 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Most of the logic here is in the documentation file. Please take
> a look at it.
>
> I know we've come full-circle here back to a tunable, but this
> new one is *WAY* simpler. I challenge anyone to describe in one
> sentence how the old one worked. Here's the way the new one
> works:
>
> If we are flushing more pages than the ceiling, we use
> the full flush, otherwise we use per-page flushes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx>
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