* Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> wrote:
> But regardless, I think we're better off with a "wait and see" approach.
>
> IOW, try to use 5-level whenever possible for now, and _if_ somebody actually
> can show that 4-level page tables perform better or have some other
> advantage,
> we can then try to be clever later when it's all tested and it's just an
> optimization, not a "that code won't even run normally and gets basically
> zero
> coverage".
Ok, fair enough - and the testing argument makes sense as well.
Thanks,
Ingo