linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] x86/tlb: optimizing flush_tlb

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Message-ID: <1336489778.16236.50.camel@twins>
Date:	Tue, 08 May 2012 17:09:38 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Alex Shi <alex.shi@...el.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] x86/tlb: optimizing flush_tlb_mm

On Tue, 2012-05-08 at 22:03 +0800, Alex Shi wrote:
> This patch is changing flush_tlb_mm(mm) to flush_tlb_mm(mm, start,
> end)
> in cases. 

Uhm, no please don't. That's called flush_tlb_range().
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