On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 12:57:19PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Paulo Marques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 15:23:56 +0100
>
> > What is weird is that most of the extra time is being accounted as
> > user-space time, but the user-space application is exactly the same in
> > both runs, only the "randomize_va_space" parameter changed.
>
> It might be attributable to more cpu cache misses in userspace since
> the virtual addresses of everything are changing each and every
> invocation.
On Transmeta CPUs that probably triggers a retranslation of
x86->native bytecode, if it thinks it hasn't seen code at that
address before.
Dave
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