Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 13 Mar 2004 17:41:37 +0000 (GMT) | From | Hugh Dickins <> | Subject | Re: anon_vma RFC2 |
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On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Rik van Riel wrote: > > No, Linus is right. > > If a child process uses mremap(), it stands to reason that > it's about to use those pages for something. > > Think of it as taking the COW faults early, because chances > are you'd be taking them anyway, just a little bit later...
Makes perfect sense in the read-write case. The read-only case is less satisfactory, but those will be even rarer.
Hugh
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