On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 21:56:38 +0100 Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> wrote:
> Like already said; _trace is an absolutely abysmal name. Also you > _really_ don't want an unconditional CR2 write in there, that's just > stupidly expensive. But a read isn't. Which is why we only do a write if the copy caused a page fault (which is already expensive). The proposed patch will have: if (cr2 != read_cr2()) write_cr2(cr2); > > Also, this function is called a _LOT_ under certain workloads, I don't > know how cheap a CR2 read is, but it had better be really cheap. That's a HPA question. -- Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/