Re: [RFC] Page table sharing
Daniel Phillips (phillips@bonn-fries.net)
Tue, 19 Feb 2002 12:39:15 +0100
On February 19, 2002 04:22 am, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> That still leaves the TLB invalidation issue, but we could handle that
> with an alternate approach: use the same "free_pte_ctx" kind of gathering
> that the zap_page_range() code uses for similar reasons (ie gather up the
> pte entries that you're going to free first, and then do a global
> invalidate later).
I think I'll fall back to unsharing the page table on swapout as Hugh
suggested, until we sort this out.
It's not that bad.
--
Daniel
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