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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 09:57:57 -0700
From: Victor Yodaiken <yodaiken@fsmlabs.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: please revert bogus patch to vmscan.c
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On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 08:38:31AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > It's simply not true on eg PPC.
> 
> 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..

You can't turn off hardware hash-chains on anything past 603, sadly enough.
So all Macs, many embedded boards, ...




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