* Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> 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