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From: sidc7 <siddhartha.chhabra@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Copy-on-write
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:15:46 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <22736146.post@talk.nabble.com> (raw)


When the kernel does a COW, say from a "src" to a "dest" page, does it need
to map the "src" and "dest" page to its address space or the kernel can
directly initiate the read from "src" and write to "dest" page ?

Thanks,
SC
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             reply	other threads:[~2009-03-27  5:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-27  5:15 sidc7 [this message]
2009-03-27  5:35 ` Copy-on-write Bryan Donlan
2009-03-27  6:43   ` Copy-on-write sidc7
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-02-06  5:49 Copy-on-Write Rick Brown
2008-02-06 11:00 ` Copy-on-Write Manish Katiyar
2008-02-06 12:33   ` Copy-on-Write Rajat Jain
2008-02-06 12:41     ` Copy-on-Write Manish Katiyar
2008-02-06 13:17     ` Copy-on-Write Daniel Cheng
2008-02-07 15:30 ` Copy-on-Write Mulyadi Santosa
2008-02-07 23:46   ` Copy-on-Write Brandon Philips
2008-02-08  2:11     ` Copy-on-Write Renê
     [not found]     ` <5f9618380802071809v24f2be47xc9aea8664a8f8488@mail.gmail.com>
2008-02-13  5:44       ` Copy-on-Write Brandon Philips

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