alt Hacker NewsPage faults are slower than being deliberate about your I/O but mapped memory is no faster or slower than "normal" memory, its the same mechanism.
Page faults are slower than being deliberate about your I/O but mapped memory is no faster or slower than "normal" memory, its the same mechanism.
Nah, usually can't have huge pages. Almost certainly can't have giant pages. Can't even fit all L3$ capacity into the L2 TLB if done via 4k pages...