From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: David Howells <dhowells@cambridge.redhat.com>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel is unstable
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 15:01:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010302150138.A18366@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <97m6ue$7uu$1@penguin.transmeta.com> <8165.983522444@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <8165.983522444@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com>; from dhowells@cambridge.redhat.com on Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 08:40:44AM +0000
On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 08:40:44AM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> no matter how finely optimised the algorithm... But merging wouldn't be done
> very often... only on memory allocation calls.
Correct, it would happen only at mmap time of course.
> Perhaps it'd be reasonable to only do VMA merging on mmap calls and not brk
> calls, and let brk manually extend an existing VMA if possible.
Yep.
Andrea
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-03-02 14:01 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
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 [this message]
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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