Re: please revert bogus patch to vmscan.c

Victor Yodaiken (yodaiken@fsmlabs.com)
Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:57:57 -0700


On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 08:38:31AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > It's simply not true on eg PPC.
>
> Now, it's not true on _all_ PPC's.
>
> The sane PPC setups actually have a regular soft-filled TLB, and last I
> saw that actually performed _better_ than the stupid architected hash-
> chains. And for the broken OS's (ie AIX) that wants the hash-chains, you
> can always make the soft-fill TLB do the stupid thing..

You can't turn off hardware hash-chains on anything past 603, sadly enough.
So all Macs, many embedded boards, ...

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