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From: Andi Kleen <andi@halobates.de>
To: Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Taras Glek <tglek@mozilla.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Downsides to madvise/fadvise(willneed) for application startup
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:41:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vdbr8vzv.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BC79F75.2090704@acm.org> (Zan Lynx's message of "Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:21:25 -0600")

Zan Lynx <zlynx@acm.org> writes:

> 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?

"make install" tends to copy. I am not aware of any Makefiles
that link directly to /usr/bin, and usually that wouldn't work
anyways because of permissions. copy fixes the problem.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-16 11:42 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
2010-04-16 11:41     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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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