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Each of these PTEs consume some of >> the memory and as long as the number of mappings being maintained >> is small enough, this space consumed by page tables is not >> objectionable. When very few memory pages are shared between >> processes, the number of PTEs to maintain is mostly constrained by >> the number of pages of memory on the system. As the number of shared >> pages and the number of times pages are shared goes up, amount of >> memory consumed by page tables starts to become significant. This >> issue does not apply to threads. Any number of threads can share the >> same pages inside a process while sharing the same PTEs. Extending >> this same model to sharing pages across processes can eliminate this >> issue for sharing across processes as well. >> >> ... >> >> API >> === >> >> mshare does not introduce a new API. It instead uses existing APIs >> to implement page table sharing. The steps to use this feature are: >> >> 1. Mount msharefs on /sys/fs/mshare - >> mount -t msharefs msharefs /sys/fs/mshare >> >> 2. mshare regions have alignment and size requirements. Start >> address for the region must be aligned to an address boundary and >> be a multiple of fixed size. This alignment and size requirement >> can be obtained by reading the file /sys/fs/mshare/mshare_info >> which returns a number in text format. mshare regions must be >> aligned to this boundary and be a multiple of this size. >> >> 3. For the process creating an mshare region: >> a. Create a file on /sys/fs/mshare, for example - >> fd = open("/sys/fs/mshare/shareme", >> O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_EXCL, 0600); >> >> b. Establish the starting address and size of the region >> struct mshare_info minfo; >> >> minfo.start = TB(2); >> minfo.size = BUFFER_SIZE; >> ioctl(fd, MSHAREFS_SET_SIZE, &minfo) >>>> c. Map some memory in the region >> struct mshare_create mcreate; >> >> mcreate.addr = TB(2); >> mcreate.size = BUFFER_SIZE;>> mcreate.offset = 0; >> mcreate.prot = PROT_READ | PROT_WRITE; >> mcreate.flags = MAP_ANONYMOUS | MAP_SHARED | MAP_FIXED; >> mcreate.fd = -1; >> >> ioctl(fd, MSHAREFS_CREATE_MAPPING, &mcreate) > > I'm not really understanding why step a exists. It's basically an > mmap() so why can't this be done within step d? Conceptually, it's defining the content of the virtual file: by creating mappings/unmapping mappings/changing mappings. Some applications will require multiple different mappings in such a virtual file. Processes mmap the resulting virtual file. -- Cheers, David / dhildenb