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[Xen-devel] Re: [patch 11/21] Xen-paravirt: Add apply_to_page_range() wh

To: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [patch 11/21] Xen-paravirt: Add apply_to_page_range() which applies a function to a pte range.
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:23:35 -0800
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> I guess your pte-at-a-time walker could be quite simply implemented underneath
> the smaps pmd-at-a-time walker.
>   

Yes, converting should be pretty simple.  There aren't many users in
Xen, but they are moderately performance critical (fork, exec and exit),
so using batching would be good.

    J

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