Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 16:00:13 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: ia64@FreeBSD.org, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Subject: Re: Grrrr.. Message-ID: <XFMail.010304160013.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103042332310.4746-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
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On 04-Mar-01 Doug Rabson wrote: > On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > >> >> On 02-Mar-01 Andrew Gallatin wrote: >> > >> > Doug Rabson writes: >> > > >> > > I remember now. I always intended to redo pmap_map() via the >> > > direct-mapped >> > > segments. This saves kernel virtual address space (of which there is >> > > plenty) but more importantly saves TLB entries and on ia64 VHTP >> > > entries. I >> > > just hacked up this patch which isn't tested on anything but I think >> > > its >> > > on the right lines. Beware of conflicts - Drew Gallatin is working in >> > > this >> > > area. >> > > >> > >> > I'm done now (and your latest patch at the top of this thread >> > incorporates my committed changes). >> > >> > I really like using the direct-mapped segment for this. >> >> I'm going to test this out on my alpha and i386 test boxes here at work. >> If it works there, I think it should probably be committed. Not that I >> am overwhelmed with pmap Clue atm. :) > > Well I'm happy with the patch on ia64 and alpha. If you don't get any > problems on i386, I think it should be committed. Perhaps you could do the > honours? Heh, I guess you haven't seen my other e-mail yet. My x86 box didn't make it back to multiuser. At least, I can't ping the box after rebooting it with the new kernel. I'll probably drive in and see if I can't get it quickly fixed. My alpha is fine with it however. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ia64" in the body of the message
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