On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 10:21:03AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 00:03 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > And to be honest we only have about 6 or 7 of these walkers > > in the whole kernel. And 90% of them are in memory.c > > While doing 4level I think I changed all of them around several > > times and it wasn't that big an issue. So it's not that we > > have a big pressing problem here... > > We have about 50% of them in memory.c :) But my main problem is more > that every single of them is implemented slightly differently.
No much more. But I only count real walkers, not stuff like vmalloc. The ioremap duplication over architectures is a bit annoying, but the fix for that would be to factor the code out completely, not only improve walking. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
