On Apr 23, 2005, at 1:35 PM, Joakim Tjernlund wrote: > Is it possible to handle the _PAGE_ACCESSED handling at pte creation > in fault.c instead > of doing it for every TLB miss? That should make the TLB Miss handler > faster.
No. As part of VM management to determine working sets, it's possible
to have
this flag change state but the page to remain valid. The cost of
setting this properly
in the miss handler is minimal compared to the other stuff that we
should try
and streamline.
Thanks.
-- Dan
