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Date:	Tue, 15 May 2012 21:58:09 +0800
From:	Alex Shi <alex.shi@...el.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3/7] x86/flush_tlb: try flush_tlb_single one by one
 in flush_tlb_range

On 05/15/2012 08:00 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 13:56 +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote:
>> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 01:16:22PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>> Wouldn't all this become much prettier if you rip out that
>>> multi-vector stuff?
>>
>> multi-vector stuff? Please elaborate.
> 
> The INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR muck:
> 
>                 apic->send_IPI_mask(to_cpumask(f->flush_cpumask),
>                               INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR_START + sender);
> 
> and simply use:
> 
>  smp_call_function()
> 


I am trying this following the patchset.
but that should another work thread.
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