On 10 Jan 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Andrea Arcangeli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > Once I or other developer finishes with the reverse lookup from page to
> > pte-chain (an implementation from DaveM just exists) we'll be able to put them
> > in a separate lru, but it's certainly not a 2.4.1-pre2 thing.
>
> Why do we even want to do reverse page tables?
We don't.
But it does come up every once in a while, and it will probably continue
to do so.
I looked at it a year or two ago myself, and came to the conclusion that I
don't want to blow up our page table size by a factor of three or more, so
I'm not personally interested any more. Maybe somebody else comes up with
a better way to do it, or with a really compelling reason to.
"Feel free to try" is definitely the open source motto.
Linus
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