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From: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
To: Momchil Velikov <velco@fadata.bg>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Note describing poor dcache utilization under high memory pressure
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 12:54:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C568D6D.ACDEA36C@aitel.hist.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0201281918050.18405-100000@waste.org> <87lmehft5b.fsf@fadata.bg> <E16VU2h-00009Y-00@starship.berlin> <87g04pfr8y.fsf@fadata.bg>

Momchil Velikov wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net> writes:
[...]
> Daniel> It's only touching the ptes on tables that are actually used, so if a parent
> Daniel> with a massive amount of mapped memory forks a child that only instantiates
> Daniel> a small portion of it (common situation) then the saving is pretty big.
> 
> Umm, all the ptes af the parent ought to be made COW, no ?

Sure. But quite a few of them may be COW already, if the parent 
itself is a result of some earlier fork.

Helge Hafting

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-01-29 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-01-28 17:13 Josh MacDonald
2002-01-28 17:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-28 18:01   ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-28 18:21     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-28 18:37       ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-28 19:28         ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-01-28 20:01       ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-28 21:33         ` Rick Stevens
2002-01-28 21:43           ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-28 22:00             ` Rick Stevens
2002-01-28 22:43               ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-28 23:06                 ` Rick Stevens
2002-01-28 23:51                   ` [OT] " jepler
2002-01-29  2:30                     ` IPmonger
2002-01-29 12:02                     ` Karl & Betty Schendel
2002-01-28 22:26             ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-28 22:34           ` Brian Gerst
2002-01-28 23:08             ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-28 22:39           ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-28 23:12             ` Rick Stevens
2002-01-28 23:27               ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-28 22:01         ` Momchil Velikov
2002-01-28 22:19           ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-29  1:29         ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-01-29  1:37           ` [reiserfs-list] " Valdis.Kletnieks
2002-01-29  1:45           ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-29  8:39           ` Momchil Velikov
2002-01-29  8:55             ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-29  9:20               ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-01-29  9:55                 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-29 10:18                 ` Momchil Velikov
2002-01-29 19:55                   ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-01-29 20:08                     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-29 20:39                       ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-01-29 20:49                         ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-29 21:01                           ` William Lee Irwin III
2002-01-29  9:20               ` Momchil Velikov
2002-01-29 10:27                 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-29 11:54                 ` Helge Hafting [this message]
2002-01-29 12:33                   ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-30  9:07                     ` Horst von Brand
2002-01-30 10:55                       ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-30 14:46                         ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-30 14:59                           ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-30 15:54                             ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-30 16:34                               ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-29 10:59           ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-29 11:28             ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-29 11:38               ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-29 12:01                 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-29 16:57             ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-01-29 17:25               ` Rik van Riel
2002-01-29 20:48                 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-29 21:00                   ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-01-29 21:08                     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-29 21:13                       ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-01-29 21:50                         ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-29 22:02                           ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-01-29 22:10                             ` Linus Torvalds
2002-01-29 22:53                           ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-29 22:53                     ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-29 23:02                       ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-01-29 23:21                         ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-28 19:25   ` [reiserfs-dev] " Hans Reiser
2002-01-28 23:52     ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-29  0:16       ` Hans Reiser
2002-01-29  0:30         ` Alexander Viro
2002-01-29 10:46           ` Hans Reiser
2002-01-29 14:50           ` Chris Mason
2002-01-29 21:10             ` Hans Reiser
2002-01-30  7:11               ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-01-30  9:57                 ` Hans Reiser
2002-01-29 17:28           ` Josh MacDonald
2002-01-29 18:44             ` [reiserfs-list] " Andreas Dilger
2002-01-29 19:55               ` Andrew Morton
2002-01-30  7:17                 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-01-30  7:32                   ` [reiserfs-list] Re: [reiserfs-dev] Re: Note describing poordcache " Andrew Morton
2002-01-30  7:52                     ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-01-30 10:03                     ` Hans Reiser
2002-01-30 10:07             ` [reiserfs-dev] Re: Note describing poor dcache " Horst von Brand
2002-01-29 18:29           ` Horst von Brand
2002-01-29  0:51         ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-29  1:32           ` Daniel Phillips
2002-01-28 22:46   ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2002-01-29 17:27   ` Josh MacDonald

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