On Feb 22, 2007, at 4:49 PM, jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu wrote:

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> Numbers would be interesting.  But what kind of numbers?  Single-CPU?
> Multi-CPU?  Or CPUs with (gack) virtually-indexed caches and TLBs
> without address-space-IDs?  I don't see how Andrew's scheme would
> really work there, but maybe I'm missing something.

Since the kernel is always mapped into the same location in every VM  
context, it doesn't matter.  He's not talking about switching VM  
context.

-- thorpej