Re: [RFC][PATCH 6/8] mm: handle_speculative_fault()

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> if an app has to change because our kernel sucks (for no good reason),
> "change the app" really is the lame type of answer.

Well, in all fairness, I doubt other kernels do any better. So changing 
the app is likely to help in general, and thus be at least part of the 
right solution.

But as outlined, we _can_ almost certainly do better on many simple and 
common cases, so changing the kernel - in addition to fixing app memory 
allocation patterns - sounds like a good avenue.

			Linus
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/