Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:04:35 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com> To: David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, toolchain@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fast sigblock (AKA rtld speedup) Message-ID: <20130112230435.GJ1410@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <50EBAA1F.9070303@freebsd.org> References: <20130107182235.GA65279@kib.kiev.ua> <50EBAA1F.9070303@freebsd.org>
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David Xu wrote this message on Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 13:09 +0800:
> and can not be freed until process is exited, the page is doubly
> mapped into in kernel and userland, accessing the shared data
> in kernel has zero overhead though.
Don't forget that there are arches out there w/ VIVT caches which will
probably eliminate most of the performance benifits if we have the same
page mapped writable in two different virtual addresses..
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