__ioremap_at() in 2.4.0-test9-pre2

Dan Malek dan at mvista.com
Thu Sep 21 13:40:50 EST 2000


David Edelsohn wrote:

> ......  The mis-optimization
> is PowerPC Linux-specific, this is not a general Linux kernel or Linux VM
> problem.

Really (seriously)?  I always thought if the Linux VM used a different
structure and method of accessing page tables (upper entries are more
than just a software address pointer for example), we could really
optimize the PowerPC kernel.

Toss out some ideas......I'm listening :-).


	-- Dan

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