From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2002 12:02:56 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: shared pagetable benchmarking In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Daniel Phillips Cc: Andrew Morton , Dave McCracken , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > Did you ask Linus? To my thinking, if it breaks even on small forks and wins > on the big forks that are bothering the database people etc (and aren't we > all database people in the end) it's a clear win. It doesn't break even on small forks. It _slows_them_down_. I personally think that small forks are a hell of a lot more important than big ones, since big ones happen rarely and don't tend to be all that performance-critical anyway. Linus -- 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/