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Dave McCracken wrote:
> 3) The current large page implementation is only for applications
> that want anonymous *non-pageable* shared memory. Shared page
> tables reduce resource usage for any shared area that's mapped
> at a common address and is large enough to span entire pte pages.
Does this happen automatically (i.e., without modifying th emmap call)?
In any case, a system using prelinking will likely have all users of a
DSO mapping the DSO at the same address. Will a system benefit in this
case? If not directly, perhaps with some help from ld.so since we do
know when we expect the same is used everywhere.
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