Messages in this thread |  | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | | Subject | Re: Note describing poor dcache utilization under high memory pressure | | Date | Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:28:22 +0100 |
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On January 29, 2002 11:59 am, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Oliver Xymoron wrote: > > > Somewhere in here, the pages have got to all be marked read-only or > > something. If they're not, then either parent or child writing to > > non-faulting addresses will be writing to shared memory. > > Either that, or we don't populate the page tables of the > parent and the child at all and have the page tables > filled in at fault time.
Yes, you could go that route but you'd have to do some weird and wonderful bookkeeping to figure out how to populate those page tables.
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