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>>>>> "William" == William Lee Irwin, <William> writes: William> At some point in the past, I wrote: William> On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 05:10:10PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: >> Redesigning the low level TLB fault handling for this would not >> count as "easily" in my book. William> I make no estimate of ease of implementation of long mode William> VHPT support. The point of the above is that the virtual William> placement constraint is an artifact of the implementation and William> not inherent in hardware. Ther's a patch available to enable long-format VHPT at www.gelato.unsw.edu.au We're waiting for 2.7 to open before pushing it in. The long-format vpht is a prerequisite for other work we're doing on super-pagesand TLB sharing. -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au The technical we do immediately, the political takes *forever* - 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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