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On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 12:51 -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:

> I'm not clear on why this is needed.  I can see value in having the  
> PGD entry in place but the pte PAs would be changing all the time so
> I  
> don't see what benefit there is in keeping them in one page.

Because they are accessed as an array by the C code ?

Ben.