From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: virtualization@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 21/21] i386 Ldt context inline
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 15:11:41 +0100
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On Tuesday 08 November 2005 05:42, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> I was also able to get the LDT switching functionality out of the
> critical path in switch_mm, which reduces the number of function calls,
> potential TLB misses and code size.

Hmm - i don't think your description matches the patch. Or where is
the critical path here?

-Andi
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