On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 01:25:36PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote: > > I have been thinking about this a bit; one of our internal performance > > teams flagged the potential performance win to me a few months ago. > > I don't have a concrete design for text replication yet; there have been > > various attempts over the years, but none were particularly compelling. > > What was not compelling about it? It wasn't merged, so clearly it wasn't compelling enough? > https://lists.openwall.net/linux-kernel/2007/07/27/112 > > What are the other attempts? I found one from Dave Hansen in 2003: https://lwn.net/Articles/45082/ I think somebody else may have posted a different one, but I don't remember now.