From: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>
To: andrea@novell.com
Cc: linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, ak@suse.de
Subject: Re: 4level page tables for Linux
Date: 13 Oct 2004 19:22:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1097709734.2666.10890.camel@cube> (raw)
> after you add the 4level, locking will become
> necessary for the pgd, but it's still not needed
> for the pml4.
>
> I'm not very excited about changing the naming,
> of the pgd/pmd/pte so I like to keep it like it is now.
>
> peraphs we could consider pgd4 instead of pml4.
> What does "pml" stands for?
The "pmd" one is certainly nonsense now.
It means "page middle directory".
Numbers for all of them would be easy to deal with.
Like this: pd1, pd2, pd3, pd4...
I'd number going toward the page, because that's
the order in which these things get walked.
next reply other threads:[~2004-10-13 23:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-13 23:22 Albert Cahalan [this message]
2004-10-13 23:51 ` 4level page tables for Linux Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-14 1:15 ` Albert Cahalan
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2004-10-14 9:25 linux
2004-10-14 11:15 ` Robin Holt
2004-10-17 2:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-10-12 13:59 Andi Kleen
2004-10-12 18:48 ` Dave Hansen
2004-10-12 19:03 ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-13 18:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-13 19:35 ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-13 20:04 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-18 17:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-10-18 17:21 ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-18 17:38 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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