Re: Note describing poor dcache utilization under high memory pressure

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Tue, 29 Jan 2002 08:59:45 -0200 (BRST)


On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Oliver Xymoron wrote:

> Somewhere in here, the pages have got to all be marked read-only or
> something. If they're not, then either parent or child writing to
> non-faulting addresses will be writing to shared memory.

Either that, or we don't populate the page tables of the
parent and the child at all and have the page tables
filled in at fault time.

Rik

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