Re: What was the problem with quicklists and x86-64?

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Thu, 2007-12-13 at 14:36 -0800, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> > > No this may mean that the problem does not exist on powerpc since it 
> > > seems to be okay to free pages before all processors have flushed the 
> > > TLBs? Or are you deferrring the freeing of the pages via RCU?
> > 
> > I'm deferring the freeing with RCU.
> 
> The deferral works on a page level or for the whole list of pages that 
> have been gathered?

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.

Ben.

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