From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 15:54:41 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] Avoiding mmap fragmentation - clean rev Message-Id: <20050519155441.7a8e94f9.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <17036.56626.994129.265926@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <17035.30820.347382.9137@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <200505181757.j4IHv0g14491@unix-os.sc.intel.com> <17036.56626.994129.265926@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Wolfgang Wander Cc: kenneth.w.chen@intel.com, herve@elma.fr, mingo@elte.hu, arjanv@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Wolfgang Wander wrote: > > Clearly one has to weight the performance issues against the memory > efficiency but since we demonstratibly throw away 25% (or 1GB) of the > available address space in the various accumulated holes a long > running application can generate That sounds pretty bad. > I hope that for the time being we can > stick with my first solution, I'm inclined to do this. > preferably extended by your munmap fix? And this, if someone has a patch? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org