Re: x86, ARM, PARISC, PPC, MIPS and Sparc folks please run this

From: Russell King (rmk_at_arm.linux.org.uk)
Date: 09/03/03

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To: Larry McVoy <lm@work.bitmover.com>, Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>, "Paul J.Y. Lahaie" <pjlahaie@steamballoon.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

    On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 04:59:00PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
    > On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 07:52:22PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
    > > Multiple mappings of the same object rarely occur in my experience, so
    > > the resulting performance loss caused by working around the cache and
    > > writebuffer is something we can live with.
    >
    > Multiple *writable* mappings. Don't forget about libc et al.

    I mean in the same group of threads with the same struct mm, not the whole
    system. 

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Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
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