On 12/11/11 18:57, Xin Tong wrote: [...] > When a process has a page fault and Linux swaps out a page from > another process and give it to the page-faulting process. Typically a > INVLPG is used to invalidate entries in the TLB. I would like to know > whether INVLPG is global ( i.e. across all cores )? Last I looked the 8086 didn't have a TLB, or page faults of any description, and I'm pretty sure that nobody's built a multicore 8086-based machine, so I suspect you might have the wrong mailing list. You may have better luck here: http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- ┌─── ｄｇ＠ｃｏｗｌａｒｋ．ｃｏｍ ───── http://www.cowlark.com ───── │ │ "Under communism, man exploits man. Under capitalism, it's just the │ opposite." --- John Kenneth Galbrith
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