Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH/RFC] Shared page tables | Date | Tue, 24 Jan 2006 02:11:58 +0100 |
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On Tuesday 24 January 2006 01:51, Dave McCracken wrote: > Most of the large OLTP applications use fixed address > mapping for their large shared regions.
Really? That sounds like a quite bad idea because it can easily break if something changes in the way virtual memory is laid out (which has happened - e.g. movement to 4level page tables on x86-64 and now randomized mmaps)
I don't think we should encourage such unportable behaviour.
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