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SubjectRe: 2.5.68-mm2
On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Benjamin LaHaise wrote:

> Actually, Ingo's rmap style sounds very similar to what I first implemented
> in one of my stabs at rmap. It has a nasty side effect of being worst case
> for cache organisation -- the sister page tends to map to the exact same
> cache line in some processors. Whoops. That said, I think that the rmap
> pte-chains can really stand a bit of optimization by means of discarding a
> couple of bits, as well as merging for adjacent pages, so I don't think
> the overhead is a lost cause yet. And nobody has written the clone() patch
> for bash yet...

I'm not sure the best solution is to try to hack applications doing things
in the way they find best. I suspect that we have to change the kernel so
it handles the requests in a reasonable way.

Of course reasonable way may mean that bash does some things a bit slower,
but given that the whole thing works well in most cases anyway, I think
the kernel handling the situation is preferable.

--
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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