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Re: Why *not* rmap, anyway?
- To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
- Subject: Re: Why *not* rmap, anyway?
- From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 12:53:04 -0700
- Cc: Christian Smith <csmith@micromuse.com>,Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>,Joseph A Knapka <jknapka@earthlink.net>,"Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org
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On Tue, 7 May 2002, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Procedural interfaces to pagetable manipulations are largely what
>> the BSD pmap and SVR4 HAT layers consisted of, no?
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 04:49:08PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> Indeed, but there is a difference between:
> 1) we need to get a proper interface
> and
> 2) we should have 2 sets of data structures, one shadowing the other
> I like (1), but have my doubts about (2) ...
If such schemes were implemented and (2) occurred, IMHO it would be
pessimal and should not be merged.
Cheers,
Bill
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