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SubjectRe: [RFC] i386: Remove page sized slabs for pgds and pmds
* Zachary Amsden (zach@vmware.com) wrote:
> William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> >>clone_pgd_range() for consistency? and it seems we lost a
> >>paravirt_alloc_pd_clone() in there somewhere.
> >>
> >
> >Yes, another reason why it shouldn't have been posted as-is. It was not
> >intended to for anything more than comparative benchmarking on systems
> >without graphics running on the bare metal as opposed to Xen/etc. guests.
> >
>
> So clone_pgd_range is mostly useless now. Originally, I intended it to
> take the part of paravirt_alloc_pd_clone. We should probably merge the
> two into just one function, unless someone thinks clone_pgd_range is
> actually useful for something.

No, I was going to suggest just that. It was orginially introduced as
the place holder for that IIRC.

thanks,
-chris
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