Re: [RFC/PATCH] Shared Page Tables [0/2]

[Christoph Lameter]

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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