linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] i386: Remove page sized slabs for pgds and pmds

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Message-ID: <20070329012859.53bef09a@the-village.bc.nu>
Date:	Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:28:59 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] i386: Remove page sized slabs for pgds and pmds

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:01:31 -0700
William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 02:38:55PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > No that was described in the patch. Quote:
> > "i386 only provides support for caching constructed pgd and pmds. These 
> > are comparatively rare to ptes so it is no surprise that the current 
> > approach has only minimal effect. ...."

Whatever it was originally for and public or not, the above isn't true
for some non Intel products...
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