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dsign on April 30, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Anatomy of a Program in Memory (2009)

Thanks for clarifying! Is whatever the kernel does now in transition to user space expensive because it's somehow proportional to the amount of actual memory that the kernel is using or has reserved?

monocasa on April 30, 2018 [–]

No, it's still more or less a O(1) operation, it's just expensive to fully flush TLBs.

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