From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 17:21:30 -0400 From: Benjamin LaHaise Subject: Re: Fork timing numbers for shared page tables Message-ID: <20021010172130.A11796@redhat.com> References: <167610000.1034278338@baldur.austin.ibm.com> <3DA5D893.CDD2407C@digeo.com> <175360000.1034279947@baldur.austin.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <175360000.1034279947@baldur.austin.ibm.com>; from dmccr@us.ibm.com on Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 02:59:07PM -0500 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Dave McCracken Cc: Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel , Linux Memory Management List-ID: On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 02:59:07PM -0500, Dave McCracken wrote: > I don't know why exec introduces a small penalty for small tasks. I'm > working on some optimizations that might help. Compare against vfork() to see what kind of best case is possible, and how much of the overhead in small tasks is just in non-vm overhead. -ben -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/