Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S940445AbXHIQYb (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Aug 2007 12:24:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S940812AbXHIQYG (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Aug 2007 12:24:06 -0400 Received: from mtagate2.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.151]:1746 "EHLO mtagate2.de.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S940747AbXHIQYE (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Aug 2007 12:24:04 -0400 Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 19:24:02 +0300 From: Muli Ben-Yehuda To: Jan Beulich Cc: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, patches@x86-64.org Subject: Re: [patches] [PATCH] [4/12] x86_64: Disable CLFLUSH support again Message-ID: <20070809162402.GC4471@rhun.haifa.ibm.com> References: <20070809241.425881000@suse.de> <20070809124131.B6E6114F3B@wotan.suse.de> <20070809131121.GL3311@rhun.haifa.ibm.com> <46BB32F6.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <46BB32F6.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 581 Lines: 16 On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 02:29:58PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote: > The issue here is not with clflush by itself, but with what pages it > is being applied to. Here, it gets used on page table pages when > flushing really is needed on what one or more page table entries in > that page table page point(ed) to. I see, thanks. Cheers, Muli - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/