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Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:56:01 +0000 (GMT)
From: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>, Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>,
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Subject: Re: Creating a per-task kernel space for kmap, user pagetables, et
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On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> This u-k-space would be a good area for at least two things (and probably others):
> 1. A good place to put the process pagetables. ....
> 2. A good place to make a per-task kmap area. ....

I'm unsure about it, but I do think it's an idea worth pursuing (in 2.5).
Rik seems to be suggesting the same in your "Scalability problem" thread.

Hugh

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