Re: [RFC] i386: Remove page sized slabs for pgds and pmds

[Zachary Amsden]

William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> > clone_pgd_range() for consistency?  and it seems we lost a
> > paravirt_alloc_pd_clone() in there somewhere.
> >     
>
> Yes, another reason why it shouldn't have been posted as-is. It was not
> intended to for anything more than comparative benchmarking on systems
> without graphics running on the bare metal as opposed to Xen/etc. guests.
>   

So clone_pgd_range is mostly useless now.  Originally, I intended it to 
take the part of paravirt_alloc_pd_clone.  We should probably merge the 
two into just one function, unless someone thinks clone_pgd_range is 
actually useful for something.

Zach
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