Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Downsides to madvise/fadvise(willneed) for application startup | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:40:44 +0200 |
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Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes: > > Yes, the linker scrambles the executable's block ordering. > > This just isn't an interesting case. World-wide, the number of people > who compile their own web browser and execute it from the file which ld > produced is, umm, seven.
My understanding was that this is usually gone when you use a delayed allocation fs (xfs, ext4), unless your link sequence takes much longer than the flush window.
-Andi
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