PTE entries

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Apr 25 13:50:08 EST 2007


On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 20:34 -0700, Siva Prasad wrote:
> Thanks Ben.
> 
> I managed to fix this. I am working on how best we can rewrite the self
> modifying code we have for create_hpte routine. I would prefer to read
> from SDR1, than to hardcode (or self modify the code) the way it is done
> now.
> 
> Feel free to let me know what you think.

Self-modifying allows better performances in that very critical code path...

Why would you need to change that code anyway ?

Ben.





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