Re: [Lse-tech] Re: 10.31 second kernel compile

Momchil Velikov (velco@fadata.bg)
14 Mar 2002 15:21:38 +0200


>>>>> "Anton" == Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> writes:
Anton> Thats due to the way we manipulate the ppc hashed page table. Every
Anton> time we update the linux page tables we have to update the hashed
Anton> page table. There are some obvious optimisations we need to make,

Out of curiousity, why there's a need to update the linux page tables ?
Doesn't pte/pmd/pgd family functions provide enough abstraction in
order to maintain _only_ the hashed page table ?

Regards,
-velco
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