On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 00:35 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote: > > if the firmware doesn't support lockless TLBIE, we need to do locking > at the guest side. pSeries_lpar_flush_hash_range does that. We don't "need" to ... it's an optimization because by experience the FW locking was horrible (and the HW locking is too). Beware however that the hash routines can take a lock too on "native" (instead of pHyp)... Ben. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>