On Sunday 14 October 2007 09:27, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Saturday 13 October 2007 06:34, Siddha, Suresh B wrote: > > sounds like two birds in one shot, I think. > > OK, I'll flesh it out a bit more and see if I can actually get > something working (and working with hugepages too). This is just a really quick hack, untested ATM, but one that has at least a chance of working (on x86). I don't know if I've got the hugepage walk exactly right, because I've never really done much practical work on that side of things. Hmm, I guess we also want some instrumentation to ensure that we aren't often dropping into the slowpath.