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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 11:47:57 -0500
From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: please revert bogus patch to vmscan.c
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0110300835140.8603-100000@penguin.transmeta.com>; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 08:38:31AM -0800
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On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 08:38:31AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Now, it's not true on _all_ PPC's.
> 
> The sane PPC setups actually have a regular soft-filled TLB, and last I
> saw that actually performed _better_ than the stupid architected hash-
> chains. And for the broken OS's (ie AIX) that wants the hash-chains, you
> can always make the soft-fill TLB do the stupid thing..

User Mode Linux has effectively an infinitely sized TLB.

		-ben
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