Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 4level page tables for Linux | From | Albert Cahalan <> | Date | 13 Oct 2004 19:22:15 -0400 |
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> after you add the 4level, locking will become > necessary for the pgd, but it's still not needed > for the pml4. > > I'm not very excited about changing the naming, > of the pgd/pmd/pte so I like to keep it like it is now. > > peraphs we could consider pgd4 instead of pml4. > What does "pml" stands for?
The "pmd" one is certainly nonsense now. It means "page middle directory".
Numbers for all of them would be easy to deal with. Like this: pd1, pd2, pd3, pd4...
I'd number going toward the page, because that's the order in which these things get walked.
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