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From: "Alan Wang" <wung_y@263.net>
Subject: about get_pte_fast and more
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 1999 17:02:03 +0800
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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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