linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/6] x86,tlb: make lazy TLB mode lazier

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Date:   Wed, 27 Jun 2018 14:17:28 -0400
From:   Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>
To:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        kernel-team <kernel-team@...com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>, songliubraving@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] x86,tlb: make lazy TLB mode lazier

On Wed, 2018-06-27 at 11:10 -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 10:31 AM Rik van Riel <riel@...riel.com>
> wrote:

> In general, the changes to this function are very hard to review
> because you're mixing semantic changes and restructuring the
> function.
> Is there any way you could avoid that?  Or maybe just open-code a
> tlb_gen check in the unlazying path?

Let me re-do v2 of the patch series in a way that
splits out the restructuring from the semantic
changes.

I already have code here that open-codes the tlb_gen
check in the unlazying path (not in v2 yet).

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