Re: shared pagetable benchmarking
From: Dave McCracken <hidden>
Date: 2002-12-27 20:16:34
--On Friday, December 27, 2002 12:02:56 -0800 Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] wrote:
It doesn't break even on small forks. It _slows_them_down_.
I gave Andrew a patch that does make it break even on small forks, by doing the copy at fork time when a process only has 3 pte pages. My tests indicate that any process with 4 or more pte pages usually is faster by doing the share. Dave McCracken -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/