Re: [RFC] Page table sharing

From: Daniel Phillips (phillips@bonn-fries.net)
Date: Tue Feb 19 2002 - 06:39:15 EST


On February 19, 2002 04:22 am, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> That still leaves the TLB invalidation issue, but we could handle that
> with an alternate approach: use the same "free_pte_ctx" kind of gathering
> that the zap_page_range() code uses for similar reasons (ie gather up the
> pte entries that you're going to free first, and then do a global
> invalidate later).

I think I'll fall back to unsharing the page table on swapout as Hugh
suggested, until we sort this out.

It's not that bad.

-- 
Daniel
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