Re: [patch 07/20] Allow paravirt backend to choose kernel PMD sharing

From: Chris Wright
Date: Wed Apr 04 2007 - 21:30:45 EST


* Christoph Lameter (clameter@xxxxxxx) wrote:
> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx>
>
> for all thats worth since I am not a i386 specialist.
>
> How much of the issues with page struct sharing between slab and arch code
> does this address?

I think the answer is 'none yet.' It uses page sized slab and still
needs pgd_list, for example. But the mm_list chaining should work too,
so it shouldn't make things any worse.

thanks,
-chris
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