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From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.5.43-mm2] New shared page table patch
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On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Rik van Riel wrote:
> >
> > ...
> > In short, we really really want shared page tables.
>
> Or large pages.  I confess to being a little perplexed as to
> why we're pursuing both.

I guess that's due to two things.

1) shared pagetables can speed up fork()+exec() somewhat

2) if we have two options that fix the Oracle problem,
   there's a better chance of getting at least one of
   the two merged ;)

Rik
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