[Bug 1657] - page table sharing for huge shared segments (mainly x86 ??)

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http://bugzilla.conectiva.com.br/show_bug.cgi?id=1657

riel@conectiva.com.br changed:

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------- Additional Comments From riel@conectiva.com.br  2002-02-09 14:46 -------
stupid me ... for 4 MB aligned areas we could simply use 4 MB pages

no nasty locking or RSS accounting problems and no page table required

I guess 4MB pages as a solution to Oracle are well accepted, now we just need an
implementation
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