Re: Linux-2.5.17

Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Wed, 22 May 2002 09:10:56 -0700 (PDT)


On Wed, 22 May 2002, Dave McCracken wrote:
>
> What would be the incremental cost of just switching to init_mm?

Pretty much zero.

Switching to init_mm is the easy approach with no real downside, it just
has the downside that it's also guaranteed to have no upside (ie there is
no win on the _next_ context switch).

Linus

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