Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Apr 1999 13:26:48 +0100 | From | Steve Dodd <> | Subject | Re: 2.2.5 optimizations for web benchmarks? |
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On Tue, Apr 27, 1999 at 12:07:30AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > So are you saying that a "thread" context switch is less painful than > > a "process"? > > If you are sharing the virtual memory space it means you don't take a TLB > flush
Stupid question:
Does the scheduler prefer processes which share vm space with the current task? As I see it, threads are just special processes, so the scheduler may just switch to a completely different process anyway and incur the TLB flush.
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