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Protected RAMFS

Posted Jun 25, 2009 15:09 UTC (Thu) by jake (editor, #205)
In reply to: Protected RAMFS by nix
Parent article: Protected RAMFS

> 26 million pagetable changes per second

I don't think it does 2 page table changes per *byte*, presumably per page, which is still rather a lot.

jake


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Protected RAMFS

Posted Jun 25, 2009 19:05 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Ah, right: I was stuck behind a stupid corporate firewall at the time so
couldn't check the code. I was assuming a pagetable change on every
write(), but I guess they could amortize it to some extent.

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