Subject: Re: Efficiency of nfsiod
To: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@dsg.stanford.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/09/1998 22:27:51
On Mon, 09 Nov 1998 22:22:31 -0800
Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
> Someone -- gwr(?) suggested something very similar for mips: having a
> designated "empty" userspace pmap, and sharing that single pmap across
> all kernel-mode-only processes. (we dont do it fully yet because it'
> break our current kstack over/underflow red-zoning.)
Pardon me? swapper, pagedaemon, and reaper (kernel-only processes) all
share vmspace0/kernel_pmap.
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