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On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Oliver Xymoron wrote: > > Seems like we could do slightly better to have these local areas mapped to > the same virtual address on each processor, which does away with the need > for an entire level of indirection. No no no. That is a really stupid idea, even though every single OS developer has at some time thought that it was the great idea (and it shows up in a lot of OS's). The reason it is a stupid idea is that if you do it, you can no longer share page tables between CPU's (unless all CPU's you support have TLB fill in software). Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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