Re: shared pagetable benchmarking

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>]

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

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