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Subject: Re: What was the problem with quicklists and x86-64?
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On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> We have a separate batch to store page table pages with an RCU head on
> it, we fire it off when it's full or when tlb gather is complete.

full? You need to wait otill the tlb gather is complete.