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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0801291634300.28027@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:35:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>
To: Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>
cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@...ranet.com>, Robin Holt <holt@....com>,
Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>, Izik Eidus <izike@...ranet.com>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, kvm-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
daniel.blueman@...drics.com, Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/6] mmu_notifier: Callbacks to invalidate address ranges
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008, Jack Steiner wrote:
> > That is true for your implementation and to address Robin's issues. Jack:
> > Is that true for the GRU?
>
> I'm not sure I understand the question. The GRU never (currently) takes
> a reference on a page. It has no mechanism for tracking pages that
> were exported to the external TLBs.
Thats what I was looking for. Thanks. KVM takes a refcount and so does
XPmem.
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