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author | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2016-08-05 10:36:15 +0200 |
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committer | Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> | 2016-08-05 10:36:15 +0200 |
commit | 94558e265b9539b2ecec98d037bae51c902663c1 (patch) | |
tree | e2782bc903759c2a8bf0af9b3a8ec090a3b1bd3e /Documentation/x86/tlb.txt | |
parent | 5ac9056753e79ac5ad1ccc3c99b311688e46e8c9 (diff) | |
parent | 1cf915d305b6e1d57db6c35c208016f9747ba3c6 (diff) |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'airlied/drm-next' into drm-intel-next-queued
Backmerge the 4.8 pull request state from Dave - conflicts were
getting out of hand, and Chris has some patches which outright don't
apply without everything merged together again.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/x86/tlb.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/x86/tlb.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
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 |