> And I can afford a few MiB of RAM for PTE's and such for *the one
> process which is mapping my huge data files*!
Once you have this, you might as well make that granularity
per VMA.
This gives you the advantage of being able to share the
mapping for libc.so ;)
for:
1) Oracle and maybe other large shared memory situations
where the page table overhead would otherwise be
prohibitively high
2) scientific calculations and other programs with a huge
dataset where TLB misses would be prohibitively slow
regards,
Rik
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