From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 01:13:44 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Long format VHPT and TLB sharing patches Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Wed, 28 May 2003 12:37:32 +1000, Matt Chapman said: Matt> As part of research we did at UNSW, we implemented the long Matt> format VHPT as well as some experimental features to improve Matt> TLB coverage (sharing of RIDs for text regions, and a global Matt> shared mmap region with protection keys for protection). We Matt> are now making these patches available. Matt> The long format VHPT patch should be fairly stable. It could Matt> be used as a basis for future work on superpages etc. It's good to see this! I haven't had a chance to review it closely, but it's definitely an area that should be interesting to experiment with. My preference would be to maintain this as a separate patch for now. Once 2.7 opens up, we can consider it for the main tree (at least if superpage work picks up and suggests that it's overall the better way to go or if there is some other killer application for long format). --david