From: "Alan Wang" <wung_y@263.net>
To: linux-mm mail list <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: about get_pte_fast and more
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 17:02:03 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <000301bf0cb4$cbd31c40$0601a8c0@honey.cs.tsinghua.edu.cn> (raw)
Hi, all:
I am studying the source code of mm in linux. Here, I have a question and I
am looking forward for any of your comments.
The question have bother me for a long time is about some functions defined
in arch/i386/pgtable.h. to make it clear, I paste one of them here:
extern __inline__ pte_t *get_pte_fast(void)
{
unsigned long *ret;
if((ret = (unsigned long *)pte_quicklist) != NULL) {
pte_quicklist = (unsigned long *)(*ret);
ret[0] = ret[1];
pgtable_cache_size--;
}
return (pte_t *)ret;
}
my questions are:
1. what is pte_quicklist and pgd_quicklist? Are they TLB?
2.what!?s on earth the function of these strange code? It appears
pte_quicklist is only a pointer to long integer but never a list and why
!(R)ret[0]=ret[1]!??
thank you.
Wang
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