Re: Note describing poor dcache utilization under high memory pressure

Oliver Xymoron (oxymoron@waste.org)
Tue, 29 Jan 2002 15:13:10 -0600 (CST)


On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> >
> > fork:
> > detach page tables from parent
>
> - leave the option ot just mark them read-only on architectures that
> support it (ie x86, I think alpha does this too).

I don't think read-only for the tables is sufficient if the pages
themselves are writable.

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