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From: "David Mosberger-Tang" <David.Mosberger@acm.org>
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2006 16:42:00 +0000
Subject: Re: accessed/dirty bit handler tuning
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On 4/3/06, Zoltan Menyhart <Zoltan.Menyhart@bull.net> wrote:

> The problem is that the most frequently used trap handler contains
> the unsafe walk of the
>
>         rx = IA64_KR_PT_BASE -> pgd[i] -> pud[j] -> pmd[k] -> pte[l]
>
> chain...

Please, everybody step back a minute.  Hint: consider that x86 does
the page-table walk in hardware...

  --david