On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 09:20:56AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> The fork/exec/mmap slowdown is the rmap overhead. I have some stuff
>>> which partialy improves it.
William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Hmm, Where does it enter the mmap() path? PTE instantiation is only done
>> for the VM_LOCKED case IIRC. Otherwise it should be invisible.
On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 04:12:49PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Oh, is that just the mmap() call itself?
I'm not actually sure what lmbench is doing.
William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> Perhaps testing with overcommit on would be useful.
On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 04:12:49PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Well yes - the new overcommit code was a significant hit on the 16ways
> was it not? You have some numbers on that?
I don't remember the before/after numbers, but I can collect some.
Cheers,
Bill
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