Re: [patch] tlbflush "improvement"
"Carlos O'Donell" <[email protected]>
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On 12/11/06, Randolph Chung <[email protected]> wrote: > This patch tries to get rid of our current "blow away the tlb on each > fork()" behavior in SMP builds. Tested lightly on pa8800. Comments welcome. > > I say "improvement" in quotes because I did not see a significant perf > improvement in kernel build times, but theoretically it should be more > performant :) > > I think we need to do some threading testcases to exercise this > sufficiently.... any volunteers? :) Help me fix NPTL threading and I'll do all the threading tests you want. c.