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To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] i386: Remove page sized slabs for pgds and pmds
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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...