Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Oct 2002 15:15:29 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.5.43-mm2] New shared page table patch |
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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 ;)
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