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From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] mmap-speedup-2.5.42-C3
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 04:07:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021016040754.C5659@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0210160957150.4018-100000@localhost.localdomain>; from mingo@elte.hu on Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 10:03:52AM +0200

On Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 10:03:52AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> On 15 Oct 2002, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > When you oprofile KDE startup you notice that a lot of time is spent in
> > get_unmapped_area too. The reason is that every KDE process links with
> > 10-20 libraries and ends up with a 40-50 entry /proc/<pid>/maps.
> 
> actually, library mappings alone should not cause a slowdown, since we
> start the search at MAP_UNMAPPED_BASE and most library mappings are below
> 1GB. But if those libraries use mmap()-ed anonymous RAM that has different
> protections then the anonymous areas do not get merged and the scanning
> overhead goes up.

Libraries mapped by dynamic linker are mapped without MAP_FIXED and unless
you use prelinking, with 0 virtual address, ie. they all end up above 1GB.
And 99% of libraries uses different protections, for the read-only and
read-write segment.

	Jakub

  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-16  8:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-15 13:11 [patch] mmap-speedup-2.5.42-C3 Ingo Molnar
2002-10-15 18:09 ` Andrew Morton
2002-10-15 21:30   ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-16  8:03     ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-16  8:07       ` Jakub Jelinek [this message]
2002-10-16  8:27         ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-16  8:22           ` Jakub Jelinek
2002-10-16  9:16         ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-16  9:47           ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-16 12:08             ` Jakub Jelinek
2002-10-16  1:14 ` Saurabh Desai
2002-10-16  8:14   ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-16 14:52     ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-16 15:49       ` Arjan van de Ven
2002-10-16 16:10         ` Andrew Morton

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