linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 8/9] x86/mm/tlb: Remove UV special case

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Message-ID: <9A6DA70B-F73E-454B-834E-08B36E0B7550@vmware.com>
Date:   Wed, 31 Jul 2019 03:11:33 +0000
From:   Nadav Amit <namit@...are.com>
To:     Mike Travis <mike.travis@....com>
CC:     Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        "x86@...nel.org" <x86@...nel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 8/9] x86/mm/tlb: Remove UV special case

> On Jul 18, 2019, at 7:25 PM, Mike Travis <mike.travis@....com> wrote:
> 
> It is a fact that the UV is still the UV and SGI is now part of HPE. The
> current external product is known as SuperDome Flex. It is both up to date
> as well as very well maintained. The ACK I provided was an okay to change
> the code, but please make the description accurate.

Looking at the code again, if I remove the call to uv_flush_tlb_others(), is
there any use for tlb_uv.c?