From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>
Cc: Taras Glek <tglek@mozilla.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Downsides to madvise/fadvise(willneed) for application startup
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 16:42:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100415164216.26848906.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BC79F75.2090704@acm.org>
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:21:25 -0600 Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org> wrote:
> On 4/15/10 4:53 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > This just isn't an interesting case. World-wide, the number of people
> > who compile their own web browser and execute it from the file which ld
> > produced is, umm, seven.
>
> Gentoo users? Linux From Scratch?
>
> There are many more than 7 of us. Unless you are talking about the build
> environments always running some tool after ld which I am not aware of.
>
OK, eight then.
But I still don't think it's the case we should optimise for. Not if
it impacts the common case even the slightest. It'd be far far better
to change those distros to perform the very cheap, once-off step of
straightening out their executables (including shared libraries).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-15 23:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-05 22:43 Downsides to madvise/fadvise(willneed) for application startup Taras Glek
2010-04-05 23:17 ` Dave Chinner
2010-04-05 23:52 ` Roland Dreier
2010-04-06 22:09 ` Taras Glek
2010-04-06 9:51 ` Johannes Weiner
2010-04-06 21:57 ` Taras Glek
2010-04-06 22:26 ` Johannes Weiner
2010-04-06 22:39 ` Taras Glek
2010-04-07 2:24 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-04-07 2:54 ` Taras Glek
2010-04-07 4:06 ` Minchan Kim
2010-04-07 7:14 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-04-07 7:33 ` Minchan Kim
2010-04-07 7:47 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-04-07 8:06 ` Minchan Kim
2010-04-07 8:13 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-04-07 7:38 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-04-08 17:44 ` Taras Glek
2010-04-12 2:27 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-04-12 3:25 ` Minchan Kim
2010-04-12 4:58 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-04-12 4:43 ` drepper
2010-04-12 4:46 ` Taras Glek
2010-04-12 4:50 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-04-12 8:50 ` Andi Kleen
2010-04-15 22:53 ` Andrew Morton
2010-04-15 23:21 ` Zan Lynx
2010-04-15 20:42 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-04-16 11:41 ` Andi Kleen
2010-04-16 12:23 ` Theodore Tso
2010-04-16 12:23 ` Theodore Tso
2010-04-16 0:41 ` Taras Glek
2010-04-15 22:21 ` Andrew Morton
2010-04-16 2:37 ` Taras Glek
2010-04-16 11:40 ` Andi Kleen
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