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From: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	jeremy@goop.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] i386: Remove page sized slabs for pgds and pmds
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:42:55 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <460AFD7F.6050802@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070328223327.GG2986@holomorphy.com>

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.

Zach

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-03-28 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-28 20:12 Christoph Lameter
2007-03-28 20:45 ` Andrew Morton
2007-03-28 21:05   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-28 21:16     ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-28 21:20       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-28 22:37         ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-28 23:44           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-29  0:53             ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-29  1:09               ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-29  1:17     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2007-03-28 20:50 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-28 21:00   ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-28 21:24     ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-28 21:38       ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-28 22:01         ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-28 22:22           ` Christoph Lameter
2007-03-29  0:28           ` Alan Cox
2007-03-29  0:59             ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-28 22:26 ` Chris Wright
2007-03-28 22:33   ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-03-28 22:45     ` Chris Wright
2007-03-28 23:42     ` Zachary Amsden [this message]
2007-03-28 22:47       ` Chris Wright

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