Subject: Re: New kinetic figures
To: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@buzzard.freeserve.co.uk>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 02/08/2001 14:57:26
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 10:03:41PM +0000, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> If we could defer the unmappings until after the pmap has been changed to
> a different one (or switch to a different pmap before starting the
> unmapping), we could eliminate the cache flush on process death entirely.
>
> Not sure how we might achieve this though.
Hm... it might already be the case that this is what happens...
The address space is torn down in uvmspace_free(), which is called
from uvm_exit(), which is called from the reaper.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>