From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 12:53:04 -0700 From: William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: Why *not* rmap, anyway? Message-ID: <20020507195304.GX15756@holomorphy.com> References: <20020507192547.GU15756@holomorphy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Description: brief message Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: Christian Smith , Daniel Phillips , Joseph A Knapka , "Martin J. Bligh" , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, 7 May 2002, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Procedural interfaces to pagetable manipulations are largely what >> the BSD pmap and SVR4 HAT layers consisted of, no? On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 04:49:08PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > Indeed, but there is a difference between: > 1) we need to get a proper interface > and > 2) we should have 2 sets of data structures, one shadowing the other > I like (1), but have my doubts about (2) ... If such schemes were implemented and (2) occurred, IMHO it would be pessimal and should not be merged. Cheers, Bill -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/