[PATCH] i386: PARAVIRT: add flush_tlb_others paravirt_op
authorJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Wed, 2 May 2007 17:27:15 +0000 (19:27 +0200)
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>
Wed, 2 May 2007 17:27:15 +0000 (19:27 +0200)
commitd4c104771a1c58e3de2a888b73b0ba1b54c0ae76
tree77ca2c6771e946aa926cb21c06702fdc7d230364
parent63f70270ccd981ce40a8ff58c03a8c2e97e368be
[PATCH] i386: PARAVIRT: add flush_tlb_others paravirt_op

This patch adds a pv_op for flush_tlb_others.  Linux running on native
hardware uses cross-CPU IPIs to flush the TLB on any CPU which may
have a particular mm's pagetable entries cached in its TLB.  This is
inefficient in a paravirtualized environment, since the hypervisor
knows which real CPUs actually contain cached mappings, which may be a
small subset of a guest's VCPUs.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c
arch/i386/kernel/smp.c
include/asm-i386/paravirt.h
include/asm-i386/tlbflush.h