From: Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@novell.com>
Cc: linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, ak@suse.de
Subject: Re: 4level page tables for Linux
Date: 13 Oct 2004 21:15:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1097716542.2673.11007.camel@cube> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041013235118.GR17849@dualathlon.random>
On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 19:51, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 07:22:15PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> > I'd number going toward the page, because that's
> > the order in which these things get walked.
>
> I'd call the pml level 1 too, but in the specs is level 4. So sticking
> the specs numbering is going to generate less confusion. Otherwise when
> we speak with somebody with hardware knowledge we say level 4 and he
> understand the specs's level 1. I recall it already happened to me once ;).
While x86_64 will be by far the most popular arch,
this is a matter for the generic code.
Perhaps "4" should be avoided: 0,1,2,3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-14 1:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-13 23:22 4level page tables for Linux Albert Cahalan
2004-10-13 23:51 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-14 1:15 ` Albert Cahalan [this message]
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2004-10-14 9:25 linux
2004-10-14 11:15 ` Robin Holt
2004-10-17 2:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-10-12 13:59 Andi Kleen
2004-10-12 18:48 ` Dave Hansen
2004-10-12 19:03 ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-13 18:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-13 19:35 ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-13 20:04 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-10-18 17:02 ` Christoph Lameter
2004-10-18 17:21 ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-18 17:38 ` Andrea Arcangeli
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