A short note a small virtually-addressed control blocks

  • Authors:
  • Jochen Liedtke

  • Affiliations:
  • GMD - - German National Research Center for Information Technology

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

Being able to access task and thread control blocks in the virtual address space has some structuring and performance advantages, but using one page per control block is too expensive in some cases. This paper describes how to emulate smaller kernel pages though still using the hardware MMU.