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[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 03:14:47PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :This is an optimisation for the intra-program switch if you want to call it so.
> :I would argue that the normal switch case is either user -> kernel or to
> :a different kernel thread.
> 
>     You pretty much always want to have just a single page table with a
>     threaded program.  The %cr3 optimization is a nice plus, but it isn't
>     why the page table is being shared.  The page table is being shared
>     because trying to build a threaded program WITHOUT sharing the page
>     table is extremely expensive.  Every time you'd allocate memory or map
>     something it would have to be replicated across N page tables.  
>     Performance would be destroyed.

But you can still share most parts of the page table, if you exploit
the two level approach.

Joerg

> 
> 						-Matt