linux-kernel - Re: [QUICKLIST 3/4] Quicklist support for x86

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Message-Id: <200704092053.05590.ak@suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 9 Apr 2007 20:53:05 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [QUICKLIST 3/4] Quicklist support for x86_64

On Monday 09 April 2007 20:51:00 Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > > It has to be done in sync with tlb flushing.
> > 
> > Why?
> 
> Otherwise you will leak pages to the page allocator before the tlb flush 
> occurred.

I don't get it sorry. Can you please explain in more detail?

-Andi


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