From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] i386: Remove page sized slabs for pgds and pmds
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:28:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070329012859.53bef09a@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070328220131.GF2986@holomorphy.com>
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:01:31 -0700
William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 02:38:55PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > No that was described in the patch. Quote:
> > "i386 only provides support for caching constructed pgd and pmds. These
> > are comparatively rare to ptes so it is no surprise that the current
> > approach has only minimal effect. ...."
Whatever it was originally for and public or not, the above isn't true
for some non Intel products...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-28 23:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-28 20:12 [RFC] i386: Remove page sized slabs for pgds and pmds Christoph Lameter
2007-03-28 20:45 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-28 21:05 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-28 21:16 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-28 21:20 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-28 22:37 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-28 23:44 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-29 0:53 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-29 1:09 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-29 1:17 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2007-03-28 20:50 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-28 21:00 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-28 21:24 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-28 21:38 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-28 22:01 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-28 22:22 ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-29 0:28 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2007-03-29 0:59 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-28 22:26 ` Chris Wright
2007-03-28 22:33 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-28 22:45 ` Chris Wright
2007-03-28 23:42 ` Zachary Amsden
2007-03-28 22:47 ` Chris Wright
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