On 05/15/2014 08:00 PM, Anthony Iliopoulos wrote: > I have dismissed this case, since I assume that there are many more > cycles spent in servicing the TLB invalidation IPI, walking the pgtable > plus other related overhead (e.g. sched) than in updating the pte/pmd > so I am not sure how possible it would be to hit this condition. Hi Anthony, I have a question about the above statement. What will happen with multi cpu VMs ? won't the race described above can happen ? I.e one virtual CPU can will visit the host and the other will continue to encounter your race ? Thanks, Oren. -- 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
