Re: process creation time increases linearly with shmem

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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?

When you consider NUMA placement (the child process may
end up running elsewhere), allocating things like page
tables lazily may well end up being a performance win.

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