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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 02:16:58PM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote:
> Actually, I would just do what we did in 2.5 and throw away *_pgd_fast()
> functions and just use a slab constructor and destructor to handle it
> for you.

Please be patient for the preconstruction that works with highpte; I
have code, but am holding back to keep the number of potentially
destabilizing changes simultaneously in the air down to a reasonable
number.


-- wli