Re: [PATCH] i386: remove dead code in pgtable_cache_init

Christoph Lameter
2007-10-10T21:09:36Z

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

> The conversion from using a slab cache to quicklist left some residual dead code.
>
> I note that in the conversion it now always allocates a whole page for
> the pgd, rather than the 32 bytes needed for a PAE pgd. Was this
> intended?

I believe that virtualization support needed a full pgd.