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From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] acme, rio workalike available in plan 9 ports
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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 13:10:19 -0400
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On Tue Apr 20 11:53:45 EDT 2004, rminnich@lanl.gov wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Eli Collins wrote:
> 
> > Regarding the TLB and SOs, I can't figure out all the fuss either since 
> > the TLB is flushed on context switch (on x86 at least).
> 
> and that's the problem. 
> 
> ron

Plan 9 on the x86 does not do a very good job of managing the TLB, when
the port was done there was only the option of flushing it entirely. Better
code for the modern variants may happen.