Article 61ESG [$] Sharing page tables with msharefs

[$] Sharing page tables with msharefs

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A page-table entry (PTE) is relatively small, requiring just eight bytes to refer to a4096-byte page on most systems. It thus does not seem like a worrisomelevel of overhead, and little effort has been made over the kernel'shistory to reduce page-table memory consumption. Those eight bytes canhurt, though, if they are replicated across a sufficiently large set ofprocesses. The msharefspatch set from Khalid Aziz is a revised attempt to address thatproblem, but it is proving to be a hard sell in the memory-managementcommunity.
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