linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH RFC v6] x86,mm,sched: make lazy TLB mode even lazier

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Message-ID: <20160908065606.GB25876@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 8 Sep 2016 08:56:06 +0200
From:   Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:     Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, serebrin@...gle.com,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrew Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v6] x86,mm,sched: make lazy TLB mode even lazier


* Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Aug 2016 16:02:25 -0700
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, with those small fixes from Ingo, I definitely don't think this
> > looks hacky at all. This all seems to be exactly what we should always
> > have done.
> 
> OK, so I was too tired yesterday to do kernel hacking, and
> missed yet another bit (xen_flush_tlb_others). Sigh.
> 
> Otherwise, the patch is identical.
> 
> Looking forward to Ben's test results.

Gentle ping to Ben.

I can also apply this without waiting for the test result, the patch looks sane 
enough to me.

Thanks,

	Ingo