linux-kernel - Re: [QUICKLIST 0/6] Arch independent quicklists V1

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Message-ID: <20070314004108.GL2986@holomorphy.com>
Date:	Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:41:08 -0700
From:	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	clameter@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ak@...e.com,
	holt@....com, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, mpm@...enic.com
Subject: Re: [QUICKLIST 0/6] Arch independent quicklists V1

On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 03:51:57PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> Someone with some extreme patience could do the sparc 32-bit port too,
> in fact it's lacking the cached PGD update logic that x86 et al. have
> so it would even end up being a bug fix :-)  This lack is why sparc32
> pre-initializes the vmalloc/module area PGDs with static page tables
> at boot time, FWIW.

I'll spare everyone the details and let code if/when it appears stand
in for promises on the sparc32 front.


-- wli
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