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On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 06:49:56PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> don't get yet another (unnecessary) allocation on fork time. I hate how
> fork()  has slowed down due to other issues (mainly rmap).

Lighter-weight data structure arrangments for ptov resolution than have
been available for some time, e.g. since 2.5.65 or so.


-- wli