On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 10:12:45AM -0700, Nadav Amit wrote: > Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 05:08:15PM -0700, Nadav Amit wrote: > >> From: Minchan Kim <minchan@xxxxxxxxxx> > >> > >> This patch is a preparatory patch for solving race problems caused by > >> TLB batch. For that, we will increase/decrease TLB flush pending count > >> of mm_struct whenever tlb_[gather|finish]_mmu is called. > >> > >> Before making it simple, this patch separates architecture specific > >> part and rename it to arch_tlb_[gather|finish]_mmu and generic part > >> just calls it. > > > > I absolutely hate this. We should unify this stuff, not diverge it > > further. > > Agreed, but I don’t see how this patch makes the situation any worse. Agree with Nadav. I don't think this patch makes things diverge further. Peter, If you are strong against of it, please tell us what part you are hating.
