Re: About 2.5.70-mm3

[ismail (cartman) donmez (kde@myrealbox.com)]

On Saturday 31 May 2003 20:44, you wrote:
> There's a little hack in there which speeds up the loading of executables:
> when someone does a mmap of a file with executable permissions the kernel
> will slurp it all into pagecache during the mmap.  That tends to speed up
> program loading quite a lot, because the normal demand-loading produces
> quite poor I/O patterns.
Cool

>
> I had a vague feeling that this code wasn't working actually, and
> reimplemented it for -mm4.
You do not really feel it in X but on system startup its *quite* impressive.


Regards,
/ismail
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