Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Aug 2002 01:00:28 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: fix CONFIG_HIGHPTE |
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On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Andrew Morton wrote: > >> Is it likely that large pages and/or shared pagetables would allow us to > >> place pagetables and pte_chains in the direct-mapped region, avoid all > >> this? > > On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 09:50:50PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > > For all workloads we care about, yes. > > Not the university workload. NFI what my employer thinks of it, but I > care about it for the sake of correctness in all cases. > > Lynch me now.
I agree with you, but you'll also have to confess that keeping pagetables around at all (whether it's in highmem or not) will potentially be a disaster for the university workload.
regards,
Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH".
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