On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 8:52 AM, H. Peter Anvin <h...@zytor.com> wrote:
>>
>> That said, it's still likely a non-production option due to the page
>> table games we'd have to play at fork/clone time.
>
> Still, seems much more tractable.
We might be able to make it more attractive by having a small
front-end cache of the 16kB allocations with the second page unmapped.
That would at least capture the common "lots of short-lived processes"
case without having to do kernel page table work.
Linus
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