Re: Crunch Time, in 3D! (2.5 final merge candidate list, v 1.4)

Denis Vlasenko (vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua)
Wed, 23 Oct 2002 08:47:58 -0200


> 6) Page table sharing (Daniel Phillips, Dave McCracken) (in -mm
> tree) http://www.geocrawler.com/mail/msg.php3?msg_id=7855063&list=35
> (A newer version of which seems to be at:)
> http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2002/Oct/6446.html
>
> Ed Tomlinson seems to have a show-stopper bug for this one, though:
>
> http://lists.insecure.org/lists/linux-kernel/2002/Oct/7147.html

Is it a major feature? I felt it's an optimization designed to
fix one of rmap VM speed issues (namely, slower fork+exec compared to
2.4 VM). As such it can be accepted after feature freeze as well.

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