Re: Why *not* rmap, anyway?

[Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>]

On Tue, 7 May 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:

> The most obvious place to start are the page table walking operations,
> of which there are a half-dozen instances or so.  Bill started to do
> some work on this, but that ran aground somehow.  I think you might run
> into the argument 'not broken yet, so don't fix yet'.  Still, it would
> be worth experimenting with strategies.
>
> Personally, I'd consider such work a diversion from the more important
> task of getting rmap implemented.

They're orthagonal.  If we find somebody to implement the
stuff it's easy enough to just merge it everywhere.

In fact, I'm pretty sure that if we get this stuff
abstracted out properly it should be easier to get -rmap
merged and improved.

cheers,

Rik
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