Subject: Re: understanding battable
To: Frank Wille <frank@phoenix.owl.de>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: port-powerpc
Date: 01/30/2007 13:59:40 
On Jan 20, 2007, at 10:52 AM, Frank Wille wrote:

> - Why is battable an array with 512 entries? 16 should be enough.

IIRC, the battable works like a super-page TLB, allowing the BATs to  
be spilled like regular PTEs.

-- thorpej