Re: [PATCH] i386: remove dead code in pgtable_cache_init

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

> The conversion from using a slab cache to quicklist left some residual dead code.
> 
> I note that in the conversion it now always allocates a whole page for
> the pgd, rather than the 32 bytes needed for a PAE pgd.  Was this
> intended?

I believe that virtualization support needed a full pgd.
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