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From: Dan Malek <dan@embeddedalley.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 19:44:14 -0500
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On Nov 7, 2005, at 3:50 PM, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:

> Yep. That should be the target. Remember the poor 8xx is not exactly a
> speed demon :).

It really isn't a big speed difference.  The context save/restore
is minimal.  The original thought was " ...well, I'm already here,
I know we will take another exception, so may as well fake the
error case and call do_page_fault."   However, I really do like
a minimal TLB miss case for valid PTEs, and push everything
else to the heavyweight functions.

Thanks.

	-- Dan