Re: [Lse-tech] Re: 10.31 second kernel compile

Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
Fri, 15 Mar 2002 04:16:56 -0800


On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 07:33:40PM +0100, Daniel Phillips wrote:

On March 14, 2002 02:21 pm, Momchil Velikov wrote:

> Out of curiousity, why there's a need to update the linux page
> tables ? Doesn't pte/pmd/pgd family functions provide enough
> abstraction in order to maintain _only_ the hashed page table ?

No, it's hardwired to the x86 tree view of page translation.

What about doing soft TLB reloads then?

--cw
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