Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Aug 1997 16:44:04 -0600 (MDT) | From | Cort <> | Subject | Re: Memory Management - BSD vs Linux |
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How can they only map 'parts' of the virtual address space? Of course there are problems once you overflow 2 buckets in the hash table but there are a number of methods for dealing with full hash tables (perhaps not suitable for use in the kernel - but possible).
}(Definition of page table: something that maps virtual addresses to }physical addresses. The IBM hashtables do NOT match that definition, }because they can only map _parts_ of the virtual address space. As such }they match the definition of a TLB: a "cache of virtual->physical
Perhaps I'm a non-IBM-blockhead, but I don't see clearly how you can support it.
}translation entries". I dare any IBM blockhead to try to refute this }without looking silly).
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