From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752676AbXCNAlI (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:41:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752670AbXCNAlH (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:41:07 -0400 Received: from holomorphy.com ([66.93.40.71]:38802 "EHLO holomorphy.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752662AbXCNAlG (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:41:06 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:41:08 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III To: David Miller Cc: clameter@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.com, holt@sgi.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, mpm@selenic.com Subject: Re: [QUICKLIST 0/6] Arch independent quicklists V1 Message-ID: <20070314004108.GL2986@holomorphy.com> References: <20070311020923.19905.49260.sendpatchset@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com> <20070312.155157.74747634.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070312.155157.74747634.davem@davemloft.net> Organization: The Domain of Holomorphy User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 03:51:57PM -0700, David Miller wrote: > Someone with some extreme patience could do the sparc 32-bit port too, > in fact it's lacking the cached PGD update logic that x86 et al. have > so it would even end up being a bug fix :-) This lack is why sparc32 > pre-initializes the vmalloc/module area PGDs with static page tables > at boot time, FWIW. I'll spare everyone the details and let code if/when it appears stand in for promises on the sparc32 front. -- wli