>From: Tristan Gingold
>To: Xu, Anthony; Tian, Kevin; xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>The race is we don't invalidate while we had to. This means a ptc.ga is
>concurrent to an itc.
>For me there is no race: the itc wins. Of course, it may loose to do the cpu
>itc, but it doesn't matter.
>
Further think, yes, there is no race, some time itc win, some time ptc.ga win,
If ptc.ga wins, it will impact performance ( extra tlb miss).
One more comment,
There maybe two vcpus running on same LP, in this situation, VHPT for this LP
is purged twice.
Thanks,
Anthony
>Tristan.
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