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Re:Nginx on Wasmjit by kllrnohj on Saturday December 08, 2018 @06:02PM (#18638047)
Of course there is. Threads share page tables, processes don't. Literally the exact distinction between threads & processes in userspace is the one that exists in hardware, too.
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Re:Nginx on Wasmjit by monocasa on Monday December 10, 2018 @01:26PM (#18649991)
Processes share the higher half of the page tables at least partially, even with KPTI turned on.
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