Recursive COW Pages in Userspace
Dev tools
memory management experiment
SHOW HN2023
13points
2comments
#2,112of 3,109 in 2023
Top 68%of 2023 by points
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QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
0 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 1 comments about the project.
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Commenter finds the project neat
From 1 comment
This is neat, but the Linux kernel kind of has a built in mechanism for this — userfaultfd (see, the following for when the capability to implement CoW was added:…
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Commenter argues the mechanism is partly kernel-side, not purely userspace
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This is neat, but the Linux kernel kind of has a built in mechanism for this — userfaultfd (see, the following for when the capability to implement CoW was added:…
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Linux userfaultfd
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This is neat, but the Linux kernel kind of has a built in mechanism for this — userfaultfd (see, the following for when the capability to implement CoW was added:…
sargun on HN