Chen, Kenneth wrote on Thursday, October 12, 2006 5:51 PM > > If set then a lookup is performed using the region7_pgdir table. > > That table is segmented into 8 section for the varying page > > sizes supported. > > What is the reason to anchor these 8 sections with pgdir? Can't we just > extract page size directly from the virtual address? Chop off bit 54 - 60, > that's the physical address, whola. I don't see why it can't be done. For a very large contiguous virtual address space, I guess there is no way to get around page table indirection. Oh well. Never mind. - Ken - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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