From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 13:56:55 -0600 From: Jack Steiner Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] AutoPage Migration - V0.1 - 0/8 Overview Message-ID: <20060315195654.GA16771@sgi.com> References: <1142019195.5204.12.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060311154113.c4358e40.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <1142270857.5210.50.camel@localhost.localdomain> <44183B64.3050701@argo.co.il> <20060315095426.b70026b8.pj@sgi.com> <20060315101402.3b19330c.pj@sgi.com> <441863AC.6050101@argo.co.il> <1142450826.5198.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1142450826.5198.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Lee Schermerhorn Cc: Avi Kivity , Paul Jackson , Christoph Lameter , kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, Steve Ofsthun List-ID: > > Is the kernel text duplicated? > > No. Might have been patches to do this for ia64 at one time. I'm not > sure, tho'. > Yes, there is a patch to duplicate kernel text. I still have a copy although I'm sure it has gotten very stale. Kernel text replication was part of the IA64 "trillian" patch at one time but was dropped because we never saw any significant benefit. However, systems are larger now & I would not be surprised if replication helped on very large systems. I plan to retest kernel replication within the next couple of months. Stay tuned... --- Jack -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org