On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Will lazy page table instantiation speed up fork(2) without rmap?
> If so, then you've got a problem, because rmap will still be slower
> than non-rmap. Linus will happily grab any speedup and make that the
> new baseline against which new schemes are compared :-)
I guess the difference here is "optimised for lmbench"
vs. "optimised to be stable in real workloads" ;)
Rik
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