13 Mar
2024
13 Mar
'24
1:57 p.m.
Hello,
On 2024-03-07 20:37, Nobody III wrote:
This is a bit of a tangent, but could the existing mechanisms be used to efficiently implement memory over-provisioning for non-critical processes, disk swapping, and copy-on-write page tables for a faster fork() implementation?
this was indeed one of motivations behind the mechanism, see [1]. Recently, this topic was briefly touched in [2] as well.
[1] https://genode.org/documentation/release-notes/10.11#On-demand_paging [2] https://lists.genode.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@lists.genode.org/mes...
Cheers Norman
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