[PATCH] x86_64: avoid some atomic operations during address space destruction
authorZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Sat, 3 Sep 2005 22:55:06 +0000 (15:55 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@evo.osdl.org>
Mon, 5 Sep 2005 07:05:48 +0000 (00:05 -0700)
commit61e06037e764337da39dff307cbcdbe9cf288349
treee9719788c751c1d4a437c98056e2ddd7e34d5dfa
parenta600388d28419305aad3c4c0af52c223cf6fa0af
[PATCH] x86_64: avoid some atomic operations during address space destruction

Any architecture that has hardware updated A/D bits that require
synchronization against other processors during PTE operations can benefit
from doing non-atomic PTE updates during address space destruction.
Originally done on i386, now ported to x86_64.

Doing a read/write pair instead of an xchg() operation saves the implicit
lock, which turns out to be a big win on 32-bit (esp w PAE).

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
include/asm-x86_64/pgtable.h