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Subject: Re: Note describing poor dcache utilization under high memory pressure
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>>>>> "Oliver" == Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org> writes:
Oliver> you can't actually _share_ the page tables without marking the pages
Oliver> themselves readonly.

Of course, ptes are made COW, just like now. Which brings up the
question how much speedup we'll gain with a code that touches every
single pte anyway ?
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