Re: quicklists confuse meminfo

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Mon Mar 10 2008 - 17:08:56 EST


Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

Yeah, the most fundamental problem is that the whole page is RO, so even if Xen trapped and emulated, it still makes a very bad neighbour. I was also going to say that there's no reason why you couldn't pack multiple pgds into one page, but I think we can only specify the cr3 at page resolution anyway.


Wrong. With PAE you can specify it at any 32-byte boundary.

-hpa

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