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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
	Kernel-team@fb.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V4][for-next]mm: add a new vector based madvise syscall
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 19:31:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151211183133.GR15533@two.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d01698140a51cf9b2ce233c7574c2ece9f6fa241.1449791762.git.shli@fb.com>

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 04:03:37PM -0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
> In jemalloc, a free(3) doesn't immediately free the memory to OS even
> the memory is page aligned/size, and hope the memory can be reused soon.
> Later the virtual address becomes fragmented, and more and more free
> memory are aggregated. If the free memory size is large, jemalloc uses
> madvise(DONT_NEED) to actually free the memory back to OS.
> 

Looks good to me now.

-Andi

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-11 18:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-11  0:03 [PATCH V4][for-next]mm: add a new vector based madvise syscall Shaohua Li
2015-12-11 18:31 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2016-01-11 19:00 ` Shaohua Li
2016-01-11 19:06   ` Andrew Morton
2016-02-17  0:08 ` Andrew Morton
2016-02-17 17:47   ` Shaohua Li
2016-02-18 12:38     ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2016-03-08 22:37     ` Shaohua Li

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