Re: [PATCH/RFC] Shared page tables

From: Dave McCracken
Date: Wed Jan 25 2006 - 17:51:20 EST



--On Wednesday, January 25, 2006 16:48:58 -0600 Ray Bryant
<raybry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Empirically, at least on Opteron, it looks like the first page of pte's
> is never shared, even if the alignment of the mapped region is correct
> (i. e. a 2MB boundary for X86_64). Is that what you expected?

If the region is aligned it should be shared. I'll investigate.

Thanks,
Dave

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