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SubjectRe: [Patch 3/3] prepopulate/cache cleared pages
FromArjan van de Ven <>
DateFri, 24 Feb 2006 10:15:42 +0100
> Arjan, just to get an idea of your workload: obviously it is a mix of
> read and write on the mmap_sem (read only will not really benefit from
> reducing lock width because cacheline transfers will still be there).

yeah it's threads that each allocate, use and then free memory with
mmap()

> Is it coming from brk() from the allocator? Someone told me a while ago
> that glibc doesn't have a decent amount of hysteresis in its allocator
> and tends to enter the kernel quite a lot... that might be something
> to look into.

we already are working on that angle; I just posted the kernel stuff as
a side effect basically 


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