Re: [RFC] i386: Remove page sized slabs for pgds and pmds

[Chris Wright]

* Zachary Amsden (zach@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> >>clone_pgd_range() for consistency?  and it seems we lost a
> >>paravirt_alloc_pd_clone() in there somewhere.
> >>    
> >
> >Yes, another reason why it shouldn't have been posted as-is. It was not
> >intended to for anything more than comparative benchmarking on systems
> >without graphics running on the bare metal as opposed to Xen/etc. guests.
> >  
> 
> So clone_pgd_range is mostly useless now.  Originally, I intended it to 
> take the part of paravirt_alloc_pd_clone.  We should probably merge the 
> two into just one function, unless someone thinks clone_pgd_range is 
> actually useful for something.

No, I was going to suggest just that.  It was orginially introduced as
the place holder for that IIRC.

thanks,
-chris
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