It is time to reconsider memory protection. The emergence of large non-volatile main memories, scalable interconnects, and rack-scale computers running large numbers of small "micro services" creates significant challenges for memory protection based solely on MMU mechanisms. Central to this is a tension between protection and translation: optimizing for translation performance often comes with a cost in protection flexibility.
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