>It avoids the issuance of IPTE (an expensive instruction when many CPs are >present) for each frame...
I know. Had I not been too lazy to open the PoOp, and read what exactly the IPTE does, I had written "it avoids updating the TLB..." instead of "it probably avoids...". I promis to do better next time ;-) -- Peter Hunkeler ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
