From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, davem@davemloft.net
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, tony.luck@intel.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
ak@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] freepgt: free_pgtables use vma list
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 16:35:12 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4243A310.1050904@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4243A257.8070805@yahoo.com.au>
Nick Piggin wrote:
> Hugh Dickins wrote:
>
>> And the range to sparc64's flush_tlb_pgtables? It's less clear to me
>> now that we need to do more than is done here - every PMD_SIZE ever
>> occupied will be flushed, do we really have to flush every PGDIR_SIZE
>> ever partially occupied? A shame to complicate it unnecessarily.
>
>
> It looks like sparc64 is the only user of this, so it is up to
> you Dave.
>
Oh - one other question too. Doing the unmap and page table freeing in
the same pass will put freed pagecache pages in the same mmu_gather as
the freed page table pages. This looks like it may be a problem for
sparc64?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-25 5:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-23 17:10 [PATCH 0/6] freepgt: free_pgtables shakeup Hugh Dickins
2005-03-23 17:11 ` [PATCH 1/6] freepgt: free_pgtables use vma list Hugh Dickins
2005-03-24 12:26 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-29 22:03 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-03-30 15:08 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-30 17:15 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-03-31 10:57 ` Andi Kleen
2005-03-25 5:32 ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-25 5:35 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2005-03-25 17:23 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-25 17:23 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-26 0:29 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-29 21:32 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-03-30 10:46 ` David Howells
2005-03-30 11:32 ` Ian Molton
2005-03-30 12:22 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-03-30 18:15 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-23 17:12 ` [PATCH 2/6] freepgt: remove MM_VM_SIZE(mm) Hugh Dickins
2005-03-23 17:13 ` [PATCH 3/6] freepgt: hugetlb_free_pgd_range Hugh Dickins
2005-03-23 17:14 ` [PATCH 4/6] freepgt: remove arch pgd_addr_end Hugh Dickins
2005-03-23 17:15 ` [PATCH 5/6] freepgt: mpnt to vma cleanup Hugh Dickins
2005-03-23 17:16 ` [PATCH 6/6] freepgt: hugetlb area is clean Hugh Dickins
2005-03-23 19:57 ` [PATCH 0/6] freepgt: free_pgtables shakeup David S. Miller
2005-03-24 0:26 ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-24 5:44 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-30 19:30 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-03-30 23:40 ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-25 21:22 ` Russell King
2005-03-26 2:06 ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-26 11:35 ` Russell King
2005-03-26 13:37 ` Russell King
2005-03-26 13:51 ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-26 15:03 ` Russell King
2005-03-30 17:00 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-03-30 17:39 ` Russell King
2005-03-26 13:42 ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-26 15:52 ` Russell King
2005-03-27 3:41 ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-27 7:57 ` Russell King
2005-03-27 18:17 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-28 7:51 ` Russell King
2005-03-28 18:47 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-30 16:30 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-03-23 19:16 [PATCH 1/6] freepgt: free_pgtables use vma list Luck, Tony
2005-03-23 19:19 ` David S. Miller
2005-03-29 20:50 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-03-23 22:07 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-03-23 22:19 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-03-30 18:23 Luck, Tony
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