Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: madvise: Ignore repeated MADV_DONTNEED hints | From | Davidlohr Bueso <> | Date | Mon, 02 Feb 2015 16:26:25 -0800 |
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On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 14:35 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 22:18:24 +0000 Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> wrote: > > > > Is there something > > > preventing this from being addressed within glibc? > > > > I doubt it other than I expect they'll punt it back and blame either the > > application for being stupid or the kernel for being slow. > > *Is* the application being stupid? What is it actually doing? > Something like > > pthread_routine() > { > p = malloc(X); > do_some(work); > free(p);
Ebizzy adds a time based loop in there. But yeah, pretty much a standard pthread model.
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