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Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2002 21:50:50 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:

> Is it likely that large pages and/or shared pagetables would allow us to
> place pagetables and pte_chains in the direct-mapped region, avoid all
> this?

For all workloads we care about, yes.

regards,

Rik
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