fsl booke MM vs. SMP questions
Dave Liu
r63238 at freescale.com
Tue May 22 20:56:15 EST 2007
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 13:09 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> In the end, the best solution might still be to simply not do any of
> this and instead send an IPI on invalidations. That's the method used by
> most architectures in linux (if not all) that do software TLB load on
> SMP. Basically, the invalidate code path then does:
>
> - Update the linux PTE
> - write barrier
> - send IPI interrupt to all CPUs in mm->cpu_vm_mask
> - local TLB flush
>
> And the IPI does a local TLB flush on all affected CPUs.
How to avoid IPI interrupt missing if the IPI interrupt is edge-
triggered?
or How to make sure TLB flushed on the else all affected CPUs?
-d
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