speed up Firefox start by a factor of 3 on x86

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 10:27:47AM +0100, Rudolf Kastl wrote:
 > 2006/3/17, Arjan van de Ven <arjan at fenrus.demon.nl>:
 > > On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 08:38 +0100, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
 > > > On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 17:35:03 -0800 John Reiser wrote:
 > > > >In contrast, Firefox always starts in 5 seconds or less on a kernel
 > > > which places
 > > > >the vDSO intelligently:
 > > > I read the long list of your reports at the bugzilla page, with the
 > > > many details and test cases provided, but apart the beginning, you
 > > > pratically received no feedback at all (at least inside bugzilla
 > > > itself): only periodically that "having merged with upstream kernel,
 > > > more than thousands of changes, so please test again and let know..."
 > > > I think you had better to submit your considerations to upstream kernel list.
 > > > In this way if accepted, they would be naturally incorporated also in fedora.
 > > > I'm not a kernel expert so sorry if this doesn't fit for you.
 > > > Juest my 0.02 euros...
 > > >
 > >
 > > that's not going to fly since this is a fix to a fedora specific
 > > patch ;)
 > >
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 > 
 > more comments on the fix would be nice. will it be merged?

I'll throw it into rawhide soon, and if nothing breaks,
then I'll backport it to the other releases.

		Dave

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