On Thu, 2014-04-24 at 16:46 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > - we do the TLB shootdown holding the page table lock (but that's not > new - ptep_get_and_flush does the same > The flip side is that we do a lot more IPIs for large invalidates, since we drop the PTL on every page table page. Ben. -- 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