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Message-ID: <20070328224717.GK10574@sequoia.sous-sol.org> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:47:17 -0700 From: Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org> To: Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>, Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>, Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, jeremy@...p.org Subject: Re: [RFC] i386: Remove page sized slabs for pgds and pmds * Zachary Amsden (zach@...are.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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.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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