Re: [Lse-tech] [patch] sched-domain cleanups,sched-2.6.5-rc2-mm2-A3

[Andi Kleen]

On Thu, 25 Mar 2004 20:09:45 +0100
Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> also, the best place to do fork() blancing is not at
> wake_up_forked_process() time, but prior doing the MM copy. This patch
> does it there. At wakeup time we've already copied all the pagetables
> and created tons of dirty cachelines.

That won't help for threaded programs that use clone(). OpenMP is such a case.

-Andi
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