[coyotos-dev] Guarded page tables

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 14:09 -0700, Charles Landau wrote:
> At 4:41 PM -0400 6/14/07, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> >On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 10:47 -0700, Charles Landau wrote:
> >  > At 12:54 PM -0400 6/14/07, Jonathan S. Shapiro wrote:
> >>  >HA/BG make GPT arity variable.
> >>
> >>  "Arity" means the number of arguments to a function. I would call 
> >>this fan-out.
> >
> >Umm. Fan-out makes sense, but arity is also correct. People speak of the
> >arity of tree data structures, for example.
> 
> I see - binary tree. But it's the tree that is binary, not the nodes.

Umm. n-ary tree, and people refer to the arity of the tree nodes.

> That problem is a result of allowing GPTs to have any l2v, not a 
> result of allowing GPTs to have a fan-out of either 8 or 16.

Not entirely. In any case I note that you have not replied with a
decision procedure.

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Jonathan S. Shapiro, Ph.D.
Managing Director
The EROS Group, LLC