From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Ray Fucillo <fucillo@intersystems.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: process creation time increases linearly with shmem
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:55:16 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0508261554260.3317@g5.osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0508261917360.8477@goblin.wat.veritas.com>
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>
> Well, I still don't think we need to test vm_file. We can add an
> anon_vma test if you like, if we really want to minimize the fork
> overhead, in favour of later faults. Do we?
I think we might want to do it in -mm for testing. Because quite frankly,
otherwise the new fork() logic won't get a lot of testing. Shared memory
isn't that common.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-26 22:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-24 18:43 process creation time increases linearly with shmem Ray Fucillo
2005-08-25 0:14 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-25 13:07 ` Ray Fucillo
2005-08-25 13:13 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-25 14:28 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-25 17:31 ` Rik van Riel
2005-08-26 1:26 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-26 1:50 ` Rik van Riel
2005-08-26 3:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-26 11:49 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-26 14:26 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-26 17:00 ` Ray Fucillo
2005-08-26 17:53 ` Rik van Riel
2005-08-26 18:20 ` Ross Biro
2005-08-26 18:56 ` Hugh Dickins
[not found] ` <8783be660508260915524e2b1e@mail.gmail.com>
2005-08-26 16:38 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-26 16:43 ` Ross Biro
2005-08-26 18:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-26 18:41 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-26 22:55 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2005-08-26 23:10 ` Rik van Riel
2005-08-26 23:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-27 15:05 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-28 4:26 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-08-28 6:49 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-29 23:33 ` Ray Fucillo
2005-08-30 0:29 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-30 1:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-30 0:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-25 14:05 Parag Warudkar
2005-08-25 14:22 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-25 14:35 ` Nick Piggin
2005-08-25 14:47 ` Parag Warudkar
2005-08-25 15:56 ` Andi Kleen
2005-12-14 14:07 Brice Oliver
2005-12-14 16:21 ` Hugh Dickins
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