Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269915AbUJMX2x (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:28:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269926AbUJMX2x (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:28:53 -0400 Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net ([204.127.202.56]:42475 "EHLO sccrmhc12.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269915AbUJMX2h (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:28:37 -0400 Subject: Re: 4level page tables for Linux From: Albert Cahalan To: andrea@novell.com Cc: linux-kernel mailing list , ak@suse.de Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1097709734.2666.10890.camel@cube> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4 Date: 13 Oct 2004 19:22:15 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 809 Lines: 25 > after you add the 4level, locking will become > necessary for the pgd, but it's still not needed > for the pml4. > > I'm not very excited about changing the naming, > of the pgd/pmd/pte so I like to keep it like it is now. > > peraphs we could consider pgd4 instead of pml4. > What does "pml" stands for? The "pmd" one is certainly nonsense now. It means "page middle directory". Numbers for all of them would be easy to deal with. Like this: pd1, pd2, pd3, pd4... I'd number going toward the page, because that's the order in which these things get walked. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/