Messages in this thread | | | Subject | mremap() | Date | Fri, 18 Dec 1998 12:58:06 -0800 | From | "Jay Nordwick" <> |
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>Linux supports a number of >VM optimisations not found elsewhere, such as mremap() to map an >existing set of pages elsewhere in the VM (giving kernel support to >realloc(3), for example).
Out of curiosity, how much of a gain is this? I was thinking of implementing it in FreeBSD last summer, but after talking to Dr. McKusick, he said that it had been tried, and was not worth it at all. What are the big gains and losses to it? Does the obvious, large, page-aligned data only, idea hold?
-jay
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