:Why not put the kernel in a different address space? IIRC there's no :absolute requirement for the kernel and userland to be in the same :address space, and that way we would have 4 GB for each. : :Greg
No, the syscall overhead is way too high if we have to mess with MMU context. This would work fine on certain cpus with hardware PID support, such as the MIPS, but the entire TLB is wiped when you change the mmu context on an Intel cpu. -Matt Matthew Dillon <dil...@backplane.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message