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Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 12:50:38 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Martin Hicks <mort@wildopensource.com>
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au, steiner@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reduce TLB flushing during process migration
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Martin Hicks <mort@wildopensource.com> wrote:
>
> Another optimization patch from Jack Steiner, intended to reduce TLB
> flushes during process migration.

This patch is only applicable to CONFIG_NUMA.  Wouldn't SMP systems benefit
from the same treatment?

And does this optimisation come with any benchmark results?

Thanks.