Re: Problem: CPU sleep when calling a function in another object for the first time.

John Marconi wrote:

I have added a kernel profiler to the timer interrupt of this CPU - and
find that during this 40ms period, the CPU is in r4k_wait - which looks
like cpu_idle is running.  It almost seems like file Y is being loaded
into memory to be used.

That is exactly what is happening. Pages in the code segment are only loaded on demand.

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