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Date:      Tue, 25 Jun 2002 17:51:06 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, Patrick Thomas <root@utility.clubscholarship.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tunings for many httpds...
Message-ID:  <3D190FFA.C7AE70BF@mindspring.com>
References:  <20020626002318.C655D3811@overcee.wemm.org>

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Peter Wemm wrote:
> Uhh, Terry, neither form of SHM uses KVA.  Either pageable or physically
> backed.  The memory is only mapped into processes and is NOT mapped into
> KVA anywhere. (*)

You and Alfred are right.

It looks like this was corrected by John Dyson, shortly after he
had checked it in to work that way.


> The difference between the normal and phys version is that the phys version
> uses raw pages and is not pageable.  Since it is not pageable, we do not need
> PV entries (which are used to remove mappings in other address spaces when
> we are forcibly paging out a page).

Yes.  The difference I was seeing is in the PV entries.  I was
mistaking this for the other.  It has 1/1024th the impact of what
I had thought was happening.


-- Terry

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