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Andrew Morton wrote:

> At a guess I'd say either a) you're hitting some path in the kernel which
> is going for a giant and bogus romp through memory, trashing CPU caches or
> b) your workload really dislikes run-child-first-after-fork or c) the page
> allocator is serving up pages which your access pattern dislikes or d)
> something else.
> 

e) it's the staircase scheduler patch?