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From: Luck, Tony <tony.luck@...>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@...>, David Miller <davem@...>
Cc: <linux-mm@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <linux-ia64@...>
Subject: RE: [11/14] vcompound: Fallbacks for order 1 stack allocations on IA64 and x86
Date: Monday, March 24, 2008 - 5:13 pm

> I am familiar with that area and I am resonably sure that this 

Christoph is correct ... IA64 pins the TLB entry for the kernel stack
(which covers both the normal C stack and the register backing store)
so that it won't have to deal with a TLB miss on the stack while handling
another TLB miss.

-Tony
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[11/14] vcompound: Fallbacks for order 1 stack allocations o..., Christoph Lameter, (Fri Mar 21, 2:17 am)
Re: [11/14] vcompound: Fallbacks for order 1 stack allocatio..., Andi Kleen, (Fri Mar 21, 6:30 pm)
Re: [11/14] vcompound: Fallbacks for order 1 stack allocatio..., Christoph Lameter, (Mon Mar 24, 3:53 pm)
Re: [11/14] vcompound: Fallbacks for order 1 stack allocatio..., Andi Kleen, (Tue Mar 25, 3:51 am)
Re: [11/14] vcompound: Fallbacks for order 1 stack allocatio..., Christoph Lameter, (Tue Mar 25, 1:55 pm)
Re: [11/14] vcompound: Fallbacks for order 1 stack allocatio..., Andi Kleen, (Tue Mar 25, 2:07 pm)
Re: [11/14] vcompound: Fallbacks for order 1 stack allocatio..., David Miller, (Fri Mar 21, 3:25 am)
Re: [11/14] vcompound: Fallbacks for order 1 stack allocatio..., Christoph Lameter, (Fri Mar 21, 1:40 pm)
Re: [11/14] vcompound: Fallbacks for order 1 stack allocatio..., David Miller, (Fri Mar 21, 5:57 pm)
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RE: [11/14] vcompound: Fallbacks for order 1 stack allocatio..., Luck, Tony, (Mon Mar 24, 5:13 pm)
RE: [11/14] vcompound: Fallbacks for order 1 stack allocatio..., Christoph Lameter, (Tue Mar 25, 1:42 pm)
RE: [11/14] vcompound: Fallbacks for order 1 stack allocatio..., Luck, Tony, (Tue Mar 25, 3:09 pm)
RE: [11/14] vcompound: Fallbacks for order 1 stack allocatio..., Christoph Lameter, (Tue Mar 25, 3:25 pm)
Re: [11/14] vcompound: Fallbacks for order 1 stack allocatio..., Ingo Molnar, (Fri Mar 21, 4:39 am)
Re: [11/14] vcompound: Fallbacks for order 1 stack allocatio..., Christoph Lameter, (Fri Mar 21, 1:33 pm)
Re: [11/14] vcompound: Fallbacks for order 1 stack allocatio..., Ingo Molnar, (Fri Mar 21, 3:02 pm)
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