Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Nov 2005 15:13:17 -0500 | From | Jeff Dike <> | Subject | Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Fragmentation Avoidance V19 |
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On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 11:54:10AM -0600, Rob Landley wrote: > Lots of work has gone into batching up syscalls and making as few of them as > possible because they are a performance bottleneck. You want to introduce a > syscall for every single individual page of memory allocated or freed. > > That's stupid.
I think what I'm optimizing is TLB flushes, not system calls. With mmap et al, they are effectively the same thing though.
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