Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 01:01:40 +0000 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> To: John Dyson <dyson@freebsd.org> Cc: CVS-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-sys@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/vm swap_pager.c swap_pager.h vm_map.c vm_object.c src/sys/sys mman.h Message-ID: <1335.832813300@critter.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 May 1996 17:46:04 MST." <199605230046.RAA16458@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Hey ... cool!
THANKS John!
I'm severly hardware challenged right now, so I cannot make too many
benchmarks on this.
If somebody wants to play with this, here is the patch to phkmalloc.
I've cut&pasted it, so the tabs are probably screwed up.
This should make most difference in environments where paging is common,
anybody care to run "make world" or other suitable benchmakrs on a 4MB
machine before and after ?
Please email any results to me.
Poul-Henning
Index: malloc.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.c,v
retrieving revision 1.10
diff -u -r1.10 malloc.c
--- malloc.c 1996/01/22 00:01:44 1.10
+++ malloc.c 1996/05/23 00:56:14
@@ -1010,6 +1010,8 @@
l = i << malloc_pageshift;
+ madvise(ptr, l, MADV_FREE);
+
tail = ptr+l;
/* add to free-list */
Poul-Henning
> dyson 96/05/22 17:46:03
>
> Modified: sys/sys mman.h
> sys/vm swap_pager.c swap_pager.h vm_map.c vm_object.c
> Log:
> Initial support for MADV_FREE, support for pages that we don't care
> about the contents anymore. This gives us alot of the advantage of
> freeing individual pages through munmap, but with almost none of the
> overhead.
--
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