Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Apr 2006 13:20:59 -0700 (PDT) | From | Christoph Lameter <> | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH] Shared Page Tables [0/2] |
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On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Dave McCracken wrote:
> The lock changes to hugetlb are only to support sharing of pmd pages when > they contain hugetlb pages. They just substitute the struct page lock for > the page_table_lock, and are only about 30 lines of code. Is this really > worth separating out?
Ia64 does not use pmd pages for huge pages. It relies instead on a separate region. I wonder if this works on IA64.
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