From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arun Sharma Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 19:35:47 +0000 Subject: Re: Virtual memory leaking through IA32 emulation layer for mmap Message-Id: <404F6E13.3030109@intel.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org 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