Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > I think the current implementation is fine for the long run, it can > provide the fastest performance when armed, and each invalidate either > requires IPIs or it may may need to access the southbridge, so when > freeing large areas of memory it's good being able to do a single > invalidate. Right. A couple of months ago we had this discussion and agreed that the begin / end was the way to go. I still support that decision. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html