Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 13:03:44 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
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On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> Furthermore all the issues with writeprotect faults over MAP_PRIVATE
> regions will have to be addressed the same way with both approaches if
> we want real 100% 4k-granular backwards compatibility.

Could you be more specific as to why my patch does not address that issue?

> And if I'm terribly wrong and the variable order pagecache is the way
> to go for the long run, the 64k tlb feature will fit in that model
> very nicely too.

Right.
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