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Re: Why *not* rmap, anyway?

On Tuesday 07 May 2002 21:25, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> Procedural interfaces to pagetable manipulations are largely what
> the BSD pmap and SVR4 HAT layers consisted of, no?

They factor the interface the wrong way for Linux.  You don't want
to have to search for each (pte *) starting from the top of the
structure.  We need to be able to do bulk processing.  The BSD
interface just doesn't accomodate this.

-- 
Daniel
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