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author | Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | 2016-07-26 17:26:29 +1000 |
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committer | Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | 2016-07-26 17:26:29 +1000 |
commit | 5e580523d9128a4d8364fe89d36c38fc7819c8dd (patch) | |
tree | 852fb2427d980830ae8686a91e4ca5873f259ab9 /Documentation/x86/tlb.txt | |
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Backmerge tag 'v4.7' into drm-next
Linux 4.7
As requested by Daniel Vetter as the conflicts were getting messy.
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diff --git a/Documentation/x86/tlb.txt b/Documentation/x86/tlb.txt index 39d172326703..6a0607b99ed8 100644 --- a/Documentation/x86/tlb.txt +++ b/Documentation/x86/tlb.txt @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ memory, it has two choices: from areas other than the one we are trying to flush will be destroyed and must be refilled later, at some cost. 2. Use the invlpg instruction to invalidate a single page at a - time. This could potentialy cost many more instructions, but + time. This could potentially cost many more instructions, but it is a much more precise operation, causing no collateral damage to other TLB entries. @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Which method to do depends on a few things: work. 3. The size of the TLB. The larger the TLB, the more collateral damage we do with a full flush. So, the larger the TLB, the - more attrative an individual flush looks. Data and + more attractive an individual flush looks. Data and instructions have separate TLBs, as do different page sizes. 4. The microarchitecture. The TLB has become a multi-level cache on modern CPUs, and the global flushes have become more |