From: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>
To: linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: ak@suse.de
Subject: Re: 4level page tables for Linux II
Date: 12 Oct 2004 23:36:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1097638599.2673.9668.camel@cube> (raw)
Hmmm...
pml4, pgd, pmd, pte (kernel names)
PML4E, PDPE, PDE, PTE (AMD hardware names)
It's kind of a mess, isn't it? It was bad enough
with the "pmd" (page middle directory, ugh) being
some random invention and everything being generally
in conflict with real hardware naming. Now you've
come up with a fourth name.
Notice that you've resorted to using a number.
Why not do that for the others too? It would
bring some order to this ever-growing collection
of arbitrary names. Like this:
pd4, pd3, pd2, pd1
next reply other threads:[~2004-10-13 3:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-13 3:36 Albert Cahalan [this message]
2004-10-13 7:22 ` 4level page tables for Linux II Andi Kleen
2004-10-13 21:42 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-10-14 16:57 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-10-15 1:55 ` Andrew Grover
2004-10-15 13:28 ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-15 13:55 ` Matthias Urlichs
2004-10-15 23:39 ` Jörn Engel
2004-10-17 5:54 ` Ingo Molnar
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-10-12 13:59 4level page tables for Linux Andi Kleen
2004-10-12 18:48 ` Dave Hansen
2004-10-12 19:03 ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-12 19:08 ` 4level page tables for Linux II Andi Kleen
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