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Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 08/29/2018 09:32 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > It's plausible that there are workloads where the current code is > faster, such as where we're munmapping a single page via syscall and > we'd prefer to only flush that one TLB entry even if the flush > operation is slower as a result. Yeah, I don't specifically remember testing it. But, I know I wanted to avoid throwing away thousands of TLB entries when we only want to rid ourselves of one.