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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 15:13:10 -0600 (CST)
From: Oliver Xymoron <oxymoron@waste.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: Note describing poor dcache utilization under high memory pressure
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On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:

>
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Oliver Xymoron wrote:
> >
> > fork:
> >   detach page tables from parent
>
>  - leave the option ot just mark them read-only on architectures that
>    support it (ie x86, I think alpha does this too).

I don't think read-only for the tables is sufficient if the pages
themselves are writable.

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