From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Lee Irwin III Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:41:08 +0000 Subject: Re: [QUICKLIST 0/6] Arch independent quicklists V1 Message-Id: <20070314004108.GL2986@holomorphy.com> List-Id: References: <20070311020923.19905.49260.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> <20070312.155157.74747634.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20070312.155157.74747634.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: David Miller Cc: clameter@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.com, holt@sgi.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, mpm@selenic.com On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 03:51:57PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > Someone with some extreme patience could do the sparc 32-bit port too, > in fact it's lacking the cached PGD update logic that x86 et al. have > so it would even end up being a bug fix :-) This lack is why sparc32 > pre-initializes the vmalloc/module area PGDs with static page tables > at boot time, FWIW. I'll spare everyone the details and let code if/when it appears stand in for promises on the sparc32 front. -- wli