From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: Charles Forsyth Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 23:23:43 +0100 To: 9fans@9fans.net In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] gar nix! Topicbox-Message-UUID: 24749182-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > (can't one just preemptively map the whole text on first-fault?) that doesn't make sense on many architectures. if there isn't a page table system, for instance, but a set of moderate size of software-managed tlbs, perhaps with hardware assistance, that won't work terribly well. the faults tell you what you're using right now. you need a page size, however, that's appropriate for your system (including your application set), or faulting lots of tiny chunks of text that your processor can execute quickly will give excessive overhead.