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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 2.5.43-mm2] New shared page table patch
    On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
    > Rik van Riel wrote:
    > >
    > > ...
    > > In short, we really really want shared page tables.
    >
    > Or large pages. I confess to being a little perplexed as to
    > why we're pursuing both.

    I guess that's due to two things.

    1) shared pagetables can speed up fork()+exec() somewhat

    2) if we have two options that fix the Oracle problem,
    there's a better chance of getting at least one of
    the two merged ;)

    Rik
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