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From: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@intel.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Virtual memory leaking through IA32 emulation layer for mmap
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 19:35:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <404F6E13.3030109@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0403091028060.22838@sutekh.progsoc.uts.edu.au>

David Mosberger wrote:
> 
> Assuming the patch is clean and the performance impact is reasonably
> small (I think it should be), I'm sure the patch would be welcome
> (that's just my opinion; Arun is the ia32 subsystem maintainer so he's
> the final decision maker as far as this is concerned).

Yes, I'd really like to see this problem fixed. I think, the patch needs to be as memory efficient as possible - we're using non-pageable kernel memory. So some numbers on the two level bitmap scheme vs keeping lists of head/tail pages for common ia32 workloads would be good.

    -Arun 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-03-10 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-08 23:43 Virtual memory leaking through IA32 emulation layer for mmap and Shaun
2004-03-08 23:59 ` Virtual memory leaking through IA32 emulation layer for mmap and munmap H. J. Lu
2004-03-09  0:11 ` Peter Chubb
2004-03-09  0:23 ` David Mosberger
2004-03-09  0:26 ` Virtual memory leaking through IA32 emulation layer for mmap Shaun
2004-03-09  0:57 ` Virtual memory leaking through IA32 emulation layer for mmap and munmap Peter Chubb
2004-03-09  1:04 ` David Mosberger
2004-03-09 20:26 ` Virtual memory leaking through IA32 emulation layer for mmap Arun Sharma
2004-03-09 20:32 ` Arun Sharma
2004-03-10  3:58 ` Virtual memory leaking through IA32 emulation layer for mmap and munmap n0ano
2004-03-10  5:16 ` Virtual memory leaking through IA32 emulation layer for mmap Shaun
2004-03-10 17:47 ` David Mosberger
2004-03-10 19:35 ` Arun Sharma [this message]
2004-03-10 19:48 ` David Mosberger

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