Re: 4level page tables for Linux

[Andrea Arcangeli]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 07:22:15PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> I'd number going toward the page, because that's
> the order in which these things get walked.

I'd call the pml level 1 too, but in the specs is level 4.  So sticking
the specs numbering is going to generate less confusion. Otherwise when
we speak with somebody with hardware knowledge we say level 4 and he
understand the specs's level 1. I recall it already happened to me once ;).
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