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To: "Aubrey Li" <aubreylee@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] nommu arch dont zero the anonymous mapping by adding UNINITIALIZE flag 
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Aubrey Li <aubreylee@gmail.com> wrote:

> Summary is, when I run the app "time test",
> 
> on x86:
> real    0m0.066s
> user    0m0.008s
> sys     0m0.058s
> 
> on Blackfin:
> real    3m 37.69s
> user    0m 0.04s
> sys     3m 37.58s

That's not a good comparison: you're comparing two different machines of two
different archs.

> Keep the same behave as MMU but with bad performance, or keep the same
> performance as MMU but without the same behave, Which one is more
> important?

The thing to do is to pass a flag to mmap() to suppress the memset (as
suggested).  This can then be used by the uClibc malloc() implementation and
does not impact any application that does an anon mmap() expecting the memory
returned to be zeroed.

David