Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 22:22:10 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: ia64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Dual-Itanium Lion boots ok. Message-ID: <20011016222210.B562@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> In-Reply-To: <20011016090311.T549-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> References: <20011015234055.A1617@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> <20011016090311.T549-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
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On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 09:05:47AM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote: > On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > > Log follows (long): > > > > FYI, > > Neat. By the way, I just changed pmap.c to hopefully avoid the tweaking > you have needed for larger memory configurations. I saw the commit yesterday night. Thanks! > I'm no longer convinced that we should use simple pv_entries for mapping > kernel pages. There are lock recursion issues with the zone allocator - I > think that if we ever run out of pv_entries, we will wedge the allocator. I'm just starting to look under the hood here, so I don't quite understand the hairy details. Don't worry about it, I'll catch up quickly enough, just continue the think out loud :-) -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message
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