Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:55:16 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: process creation time increases linearly with shmem |
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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.
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