On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 06:07:24PM +0100, Alistair Riddell wrote:
> No, it does not. There may be a slight delay while the module is loaded
> but this usually happens at boot time.
Yes it does, but it is marginal. Nothing you'd notice.
The module lives in vmalloced memory (at least on i386), which uses
individually mapped pages, so there is competition in the TLB (on-chip
page translation cache) with user space programs.
-- Jamie
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