Re: Page table sharing

Dave McCracken (dmccr@us.ibm.com)
Wed, 25 Sep 2002 13:40:11 -0500


--On Wednesday, September 25, 2002 20:12:36 +0200 "Gerold J. Wucherpfennig"
<gjwucherpfennig@gmx.net> wrote:

> What about page table sharing? Does anybody still care about this?
>
> The patch from Daniel Phillips
> (http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=7855063&list=35)
> is a few month old and I can't see any progress.
>
> Sorry, I'm not a kernel expert, so I can't help.
> But page table sharing is still listed as betaware at the
> Linux Kernel 2.5 Status page (http://kernelnewbies.org/status/latest.html)
> and Page Table sharing isn't marked post Halloween.
>
> Some comments from Daniel Phillips or Dave McCracken?

I'm working on it. I sent out a patch to the mm list a few weeks ago, but
it didn't have the locking right. I'm in the proces of finishing an
improved version with new locking. I'll send a snapshot of it out when I
can make it stop oopsing :)

Dave McCracken

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