From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14352.41043.903043.50156@dukat.scot.redhat.com> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 18:35:15 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: page faults In-Reply-To: References: <14352.24920.122613.498709@dukat.scot.redhat.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: James Simmons Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" , "Benjamin C.R. LaHaise" , Linux MM List-ID: Hi, On Fri, 22 Oct 1999 10:59:25 -0400 (EDT), James Simmons said: > Thank you for that answer. I remember you told me that threads under > linux is defined as two processes sharing the same memory. So when a > minor page fault happens by anyone one process will both process page > tables get updated? Or does the other process will have a minor page > itself independent of the other process? Threads are a special case: there is only one set of page tables, and the pte will only be faulted in once. --Stephen -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/