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[Xen-devel] Staus of split lock in pfn_inf on x86_64

To: "Puthiyaparambil, Aravindh" <aravindh.puthiyaparambil@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Staus of split lock in pfn_inf on x86_64
From: "Nakajima, Jun" <jun.nakajima@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:04:52 -0700
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Thread-topic: Staus of split lock in pfn_inf on x86_64
Aravindh, Hi

I remember you proposed some changes to the pfn_info structure to avoid
split locks, and I would like to know about the current status, i.e. are
we still doing the lock prefixed instruction across cache lines?

Jun
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