From: Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Slowdown with randomize_va_space in 2.6.12.2 Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 16:53:15 -0400
> On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 12:57:19PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > > 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. That sounds like a more likely cause than my theory. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
