Re: [PATCH 2.5.43-mm2] New shared page table patch

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Rik van Riel wrote:

> On 21 Oct 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> writes:

> > We swap pages out all of the time in 2.4.x, and that is all I was
> > suggesting swap out some but not all of the pages, on a very long
> > pte_chain.  And swapping out a page is not terribly complex, unless
> > something very drastic has changed.
> 
> Imagine a slightly larger than normal Oracle server.
> Say 5000 processes with 1 GB of shared memory.
> 
> Just the page tables needed to map this memory would
> take up 5 GB of RAM ... with shared page tables we
> only need 1 MB of page tables.
> 
> The corresponding reduction in rmaps is a nice bonus,
> but hardly any more dramatic than the page table
> overhead.
> 
> In short, we really really want shared page tables.

Does using spt require mapping the pages at the same location in all
processes?

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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