From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>,
Ivan Stepnikov <iv@spylog.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel is unstable
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 21:45:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010301214525.J15051@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010301153935.G32484@athlon.random> <E14YXh5-0008GQ-00@the-village.bc.nu> <20010301193017.E15051@athlon.random> <15006.40279.407072.321187@pizda.ninka.net>
In-Reply-To: <15006.40279.407072.321187@pizda.ninka.net>; from davem@redhat.com on Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 11:04:55AM -0800
On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 11:04:55AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> Linus didn't find it to be such a gain, and in fact the one
> place that does gain from such merging (sys_brk()) does the
> merging by hand :-)
somewhere in either kernel or glibc we need to do the merging to avoid
allocating new vmas and to grow the avl, otherwise server environment will be
hurted. We're not going to need this feature to run kde well, or to do
compiles, but people using the 3.5G per-task patch or using a 64bit userspace
becaue they're too strict in 3.5G are certainly going to strictly need this
optimization.
I certainly prefer to do the merging at the kernel layer because it's generic
and it doesn't optimize only malloc users.
Andrea
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-01 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-03-01 9:16 Kernel is unstable Ivan Stepnikov
2001-03-01 10:27 ` Matti Aarnio
2001-03-01 14:35 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-03-01 14:39 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-03-01 18:20 ` Alan Cox
2001-03-01 18:30 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-03-01 19:04 ` David S. Miller
2001-03-01 20:45 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2001-03-01 19:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-02 8:23 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-03-02 8:40 ` David Howells
2001-03-02 14:01 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-03-02 17:52 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-03-05 23:06 ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-03-01 13:39 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-03-01 14:24 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-03-01 17:12 ` Ingo Oeser
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2001-03-01 13:55 Heusden, Folkert van
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