Re: Linux 2.4.18pre3-ac1

Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Mon, 21 Jan 2002 03:34:14 -0200 (BRST)


On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Richard Gooch wrote:

> Will lazy page table instantiation speed up fork(2) without rmap?
> If so, then you've got a problem, because rmap will still be slower
> than non-rmap. Linus will happily grab any speedup and make that the
> new baseline against which new schemes are compared :-)

I guess the difference here is "optimised for lmbench"
vs. "optimised to be stable in real workloads" ;)

Rik

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