On 09/09/2009 12:08 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Theodore Tso <tytso@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> Wasn't one of the reasons why we historically did child_runs_first >> was so that for fork/exit workloads, the child has a chance to >> exec the new process? If the parent runs first, then more pages >> will probably need to be COW'ed. > > That kind of workload should be using vfork() anyway, and be even > faster because it can avoid the fork overhead, right? According to my man page, POSIX.1-2008 removes the specification of vfork(). Chris -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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