Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269923AbUJMXug (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:50:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269919AbUJMXug (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:50:36 -0400 Received: from mail-relay-2.tiscali.it ([213.205.33.42]:9174 "EHLO mail-relay-2.tiscali.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269923AbUJMXu3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Oct 2004 19:50:29 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 01:51:18 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Albert Cahalan Cc: linux-kernel mailing list , ak@suse.de Subject: Re: 4level page tables for Linux Message-ID: <20041013235118.GR17849@dualathlon.random> References: <1097709734.2666.10890.camel@cube> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1097709734.2666.10890.camel@cube> X-GPG-Key: 1024D/68B9CB43 13D9 8355 295F 4823 7C49 C012 DFA1 686E 68B9 CB43 X-PGP-Key: 1024R/CB4660B9 CC A0 71 81 F4 A0 63 AC C0 4B 81 1D 8C 15 C8 E5 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 695 Lines: 13 On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 07:22:15PM -0400, Albert Cahalan wrote: > I'd number going toward the page, because that's > the order in which these things get walked. I'd call the pml level 1 too, but in the specs is level 4. So sticking the specs numbering is going to generate less confusion. Otherwise when we speak with somebody with hardware knowledge we say level 4 and he understand the specs's level 1. I recall it already happened to me once ;). - 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/