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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
To: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch 07/20] Allow paravirt backend to choose kernel PMD sharing
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* Christoph Lameter (clameter@sgi.com) wrote:
> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
> 
> 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