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Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:22:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
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On Mon, 26 Mar 2007, William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> Not that clameter really needs my help, but I agree with his position
> on several fronts, and advocate accordingly, so here is where I'm at.

Yes thank you. I386 is not my field, I have no interest per se in 
improving i386 performance and without your help I would have to drop this 
and keep the special casing in SLUB for i386. Generic tlb.h changes may 
also help to introduce quicklists to x86_64. The current quicklist patches 
can only work on higher levels due to the freeing of ptes via 
tlb_remove_page().