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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?

On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 09:50:50PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote:
> For all workloads we care about, yes.
> regards,
> Rik

Not the university workload. NFI what my employer thinks of it, but I
care about it for the sake of correctness in all cases.

Lynch me now.


Cheers,
Bill
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