Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 15:23:20 -0800 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@dyson.iquest.net> Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon), root@dyson.iquest.net, dg@root.com, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Review and report of linux kernel VM Message-ID: <199901142323.PAA07241@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Thu, 14 Jan 1999 17:57:57 -0500 (EST) "John S. Dyson" <dyson@dyson.iquest.net> wrote: > implementations, but also adds overhead. It would be "nice" to be able > for the upper level VM code to simply modify page table entries sometimes, > wouldn't it? One thing that I did in the FreeBSD code was to minimize the It would? What if your architecture doesn't use page tables, in the traditional sense? (There are at least a couple modern RISC architectures for which this is the case...) Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: +1 408 866 1912 NAS: M/S 258-5 Work: +1 650 604 0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: +1 650 940 5942 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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