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Date:      Fri, 28 Apr 2006 22:36:36 -0700
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 pmap.c
Message-ID:  <4452FB64.7030308@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060429024850.GB997@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
References:  <200604281905.k3SJ59MZ008806@repoman.freebsd.org> <200604281422.35831.peter@wemm.org> <20060429024850.GB997@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>

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Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-Apr-28 14:22:34 -0700, Peter Wemm wrote:
>> On Friday 28 April 2006 12:05 pm, Peter Wemm wrote:
>>>   ups@ had a truely evil idea that I'll investigate.  It should allow
>>>   freeing unused pages again by giving us a no-cost way to track the
>>>   holes in the kva block. 
>> FWIW, this idea appears to work.  For the curious:
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/freepv.diff
> 
> Care to explain how this works in slightly more detail than "truely evil".

The PTE (page-table entry) is an appropriate size to store a pointer. 
So you link them all together in a freelist.

-- 
Nate



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