On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > no strong feeling either way - but i dont think there's any cross-CPU > TLB flush done in this case within vmap()/vunmap(). Why? Because when > alternative_instructions() runs then we have just a single CPU in > cpu_online_map. Ok, fair enough. Without the IPI, I don't think there's a big deal. And you have the numbers to prove it. Consider me convinced. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html