Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Aug 2002 11:07:52 +1000 | From | Anton Blanchard <> | Subject | Re: fix CONFIG_HIGHPTE |
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> We're piling more and more crap in there to support these pte_chains. > How much is too much? > > 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 ppc64 shared pagetables will require significant changes to the way we handle the hardware hashtable. So add that to the "more and more crap in there to support these pte_chains"
Will shared pagetables be a requirement or can we turn it on per arch?
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