Re: [RFC PATCH 10/13] mm: Introduce first class virtual address spaces

2017-03-13 Thread Till Smejkal
Hi Vineet, On Mon, 13 Mar 2017, Vineet Gupta wrote: > I've not looked at the patches closely (or read the references paper fully > yet), > but at first glance it seems on ARC architecture, we can can potentially > use/leverage this mechanism to implement the shared TLB entries. Before anyone > sh

Re: [RFC PATCH 10/13] mm: Introduce first class virtual address spaces

2017-03-13 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 03:14:12PM -0700, Till Smejkal wrote: There's no way with that many cc: lists and people that this is really making it through very many people's filters and actually on a mailing list. Please trim them down. Minor sysfs questions/issues: > +struct vas { > + struct k

Re: [RFC PATCH 10/13] mm: Introduce first class virtual address spaces

2017-03-13 Thread Till Smejkal
Hi Greg, First of all thanks for your reply. On Tue, 14 Mar 2017, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 03:14:12PM -0700, Till Smejkal wrote: > > There's no way with that many cc: lists and people that this is really > making it through very many people's filters and actually on a

Re: [RFC PATCH 10/13] mm: Introduce first class virtual address spaces

2017-03-13 Thread Vineet Gupta
+CC Ingo, tglx Hi Till, On 03/13/2017 03:14 PM, Till Smejkal wrote: > Introduce a different type of address spaces which are first class citizens > in the OS. That means that the kernel now handles two types of AS, those > which are closely coupled with a process and those which aren't. While the