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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] MM: implement MADV_FREE lazy freeing of anonymous memory
    Nick Piggin wrote:
    > What I found is that, on this system, MADV_FREE performance improvement
    > was in the noise when you look at it on top of the MADV_DONTNEED glibc
    > and down_read(mmap_sem) patch in sysbench.

    I don't want to judge the numbers since I cannot but I want to make an
    observations: even if in the SMP case MADV_FREE turns out to not be a
    bigger boost then there is still the UP case to keep in mind where Rik
    measured a significant speed-up. As long as the SMP case isn't hurt
    this is reaosn enough to use the patch. With more and more cores on one
    processor SMP systems are pushed evermore to the high-end side. You'll
    find many installations which today use SMP will be happy enough with
    many-core UP machines.

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    ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖

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