--On Friday, December 27, 2002 12:18:23 -0800 Linus Torvalds
[off-list ref] wrote:

That's clearly not 2.6.x material. But at this point I doubt that shared
page tables are either, unless they fix something more important than 
fork() speed for processes that are larger than 16MB.

The other thing it does is eliminate the duplicate pte pages for shared
regions everywhere they span a complete pte page.  While hugetlb can also
do this for some specialized applications, shared page tables will do it
for every shared region that's large enough.  I dunno whether you consider
that important enough to qualify, but I figured I should point it out.

Dave McCracken

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