From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 12:41:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 12:41:08 -0400 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:54300 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 15 Aug 2001 12:41:01 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 18:40:58 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Hugh Dickins Cc: "David S. Miller" , thockin@sun.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFC: poll change Message-ID: <20010815184058.B12403@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20010815163256.E7382@athlon.random> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from hugh@veritas.com on Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 05:30:04PM +0100 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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