On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, Chen, Kenneth W wrote: > One other caveat with this is that if you have a tlb miss on mm->mmap_sem, > it won't prefetch anything because alt_dtlb_miss handler will nuke the > ld8.s or lfetch instruction :-( Still no harm done. It is likely (especially in contended situations) that we have the tlb already. Maybe we could modify the patch to prefetch the tlb somehow? - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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