[$] Memory-management short topics: page-table sharing and working sets
The kernel’s memory-management developers have been busy before and during
the holidays; the result is a number of patch sets making significant
changes to that subsystem. It is time for a quick look at three of those
projects. Two of them aim to increase the sharing of page tables between
processes, while the third takes advantage of the multi-generational LRU to create a better
picture of what a process’s working set actually … ⌘ Read more