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From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
	thockin@sun.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: poll change
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 18:40:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010815184058.B12403@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010815163256.E7382@athlon.random> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0108151725490.1005-100000@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0108151725490.1005-100000@localhost.localdomain>; from hugh@veritas.com on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 05:30:04PM +0100

On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 05:30:04PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > 
> > Since 2.2 we have the free_pgtables to release the pagetables under
> > unused pgd slots, that was used to work pretty well last time I checked.
> 
> Funny you mention that: I noticed a while back that actually
> it doesn't work well with i386 PAE - presumably looks for an empty 1GB.

correct, we'd need the equivalent for the pmd too, this applies to the
other 3-level (or more) pagetables archs too.

Andrea

  reply	other threads:[~2001-08-15 16:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <3B79B381.58266C13@sun.com>
     [not found] ` <20010814.162710.131914269.davem@redhat.com>
     [not found]   ` <3B79B5F3.C816CBED@sun.com>
     [not found]     ` <20010814.163804.66057702.davem@redhat.com>
2001-08-14 23:53       ` RFC: poll change Tim Hockin
2001-08-14 23:53         ` David S. Miller
2001-08-15  0:08           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-15  0:09           ` Tim Hockin
2001-08-15  0:06             ` David S. Miller
2001-08-15  0:11         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-15  0:16           ` David S. Miller
2001-08-15  0:30             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-15  0:34             ` [PATCH] agreed upon " Tim Hockin
2001-08-15  0:32               ` David S. Miller
2001-08-15 14:13             ` RFC: " Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-15 14:24               ` David S. Miller
2001-08-15 14:32                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-15 16:30                   ` Hugh Dickins
2001-08-15 16:40                     ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2001-08-14 21:08 Tim Hockin
2001-08-14 21:43 ` David S. Miller
2001-08-14 22:38   ` Herbert Xu
2001-08-14 22:42     ` David S. Miller
2001-08-15  0:03       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-15  0:06         ` David S. Miller
2001-08-15  0:16           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-08-15  0:23             ` David S. Miller
2001-08-15 10:40       ` David Schwartz

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