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From: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
To: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] TLB flush multiple pages with a single IPI v3
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2015 16:16:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150424151652.GC2449@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <553A573E.2000608@suse.cz>

On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 04:46:22PM +0200, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 04/21/2015 12:41 PM, Mel Gorman wrote:
> >Changelog since V2
> >o Ensure TLBs are flushed before pages are freed		(mel)
> 
> I admit not reading all the patches thoroughly, but doesn't this
> change of ordering mean that you no longer need the architectural
> guarantee discussed in patch 2?

No. If we unmap a page to write it to disk then we cannot allow a CPU to
write to the physical page being written through a cached entry.

-- 
Mel Gorman
SUSE Labs

      reply	other threads:[~2015-04-24 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-21 10:41 [RFC PATCH 0/6] TLB flush multiple pages with a single IPI v3 Mel Gorman
2015-04-21 10:41 ` [PATCH 1/6] x86, mm: Trace when an IPI is about to be sent Mel Gorman
2015-04-21 10:41 ` [PATCH 2/6] mm: Send a single IPI to TLB flush multiple pages when unmapping Mel Gorman
2015-04-21 10:41 ` [PATCH 3/6] mm: Defer TLB flush after unmap as long as possible Mel Gorman
2015-04-21 20:31   ` Rik van Riel
2015-04-21 21:17     ` Mel Gorman
2015-04-21 10:41 ` [PATCH 4/6] mm, migrate: Drop references to successfully migrated pages at the same time Mel Gorman
2015-04-21 10:41 ` [PATCH 5/6] mm, migrate: Batch TLB flushing when unmapping pages for migration Mel Gorman
2015-04-21 10:41 ` [PATCH 6/6] mm: Gather more PFNs before sending a TLB to flush unmapped pages Mel Gorman
2015-04-24 14:46 ` [RFC PATCH 0/6] TLB flush multiple pages with a single IPI v3 Vlastimil Babka
2015-04-24 15:16   ` Mel Gorman [this message]

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