From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, riel@surriel.com
Subject: Re: fix CONFIG_HIGHPTE
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 11:07:52 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020807010752.GC6343@krispykreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D506D43.890EA215@zip.com.au>
> We're piling more and more crap in there to support these pte_chains.
> How much is too much?
>
> Is it likely that large pages and/or shared pagetables would allow us to
> place pagetables and pte_chains in the direct-mapped region, avoid all
> this?
On ppc64 shared pagetables will require significant changes to the way
we handle the hardware hashtable. So add that to the "more and more crap
in there to support these pte_chains"
Will shared pagetables be a requirement or can we turn it on per arch?
Anton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-07 1:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-06 23:15 fix CONFIG_HIGHPTE William Lee Irwin III
2002-08-07 0:43 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-07 0:50 ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-07 1:31 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-08-07 4:00 ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-07 4:12 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-08-07 1:07 ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
2002-08-07 1:55 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-08-07 2:57 ` Andrew Morton
2002-08-07 18:43 ` Ingo Oeser
2002-08-08 14:51 ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-08 19:59 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-08 18:44 ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-08 19:22 ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-08-08 14:51 ` Martin J. Bligh
2002-08-09 14:10 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-09 14:07 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-08-07 4:05 ` Rik van Riel
2002-08-07 4:18 ` Anton Blanchard
2002-08-07 5:16 ` Martin J. Bligh
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