Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Mar 2002 11:35:36 -0700 | From | yodaiken@fsmlabs ... | Subject | Re: [Lse-tech] Re: 10.31 second kernel compile |
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On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 10:06:06AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > We'll end up (probably five years from now) re-doing the thing to allow > four levels (so a tired old x86 would fold _two_ levels instead of just > one, but I bet they'll still be the majority), simply because with three > levels you reasonably reach only about 41 bits of VM space.
Why so few bits per level? Don't you want bigger pages or page clusters?
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