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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-07-27 12:35:35 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2016-07-27 12:35:35 +0200 |
commit | df15929f8f5c69e987c31bf016eca4a38dba46f0 (patch) | |
tree | cfb5fe5e8ebff4cabd70557a304f355546943cc9 /Documentation/x86/tlb.txt | |
parent | x86/microcode/intel: Fix initrd loading with CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY=y (diff) | |
parent | Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/ke... (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'linus' into x86/microcode, to pick up merge window changes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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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 |