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Memory part 3: Virtual Memory

Memory part 3: Virtual Memory

Posted Oct 9, 2007 20:14 UTC (Tue) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183)
Parent article: Memory part 3: Virtual Memory

I wonder if it's worth pointing out that because the kernel gets loaded right at the beginning it can arrange a single large 4MB TLB page for itself, whereas modules loaded later on can't take advantage of this.


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