> On 26 Jul 2002, Robert Love wrote:
>
> > Better question is, why would we have page-able kernel memory?
>
> We don't want to have generic page-able kernel memory.
>
> However, it might be useful to be able to reclaim or page
> out data structures that might otherwise gobble up all of
> RAM and crash the machine, say page tables.
I agree a better solution than high-pte is probably needed. Shared page
tables and/or large page tables insufficient?
Robert Love
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