Re: process creation time increases linearly with shmem

[Linus Torvalds]

On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Hugh Dickins wrote:
>
> Well, I still don't think we need to test vm_file.  We can add an
> anon_vma test if you like, if we really want to minimize the fork
> overhead, in favour of later faults.  Do we?

I think we might want to do it in -mm for testing. Because quite frankly, 
otherwise the new fork() logic won't get a lot of testing. Shared memory 
isn't that common.

		Linus
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