Messages in this thread | | | From | Rasmus Villemoes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3 v3] mm/vmalloc: Cache the vmalloc memory info | Date | Mon, 24 Aug 2015 10:39:17 +0200 |
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On Mon, Aug 24 2015, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
> > Thanks, is the fixed up changelog below better? >
Yes, though Linus specifically referred to "make test" (but I guess one could/should consider that part of the build process).
Rasmus
> mm/vmalloc: Cache the vmalloc memory info > > Linus reported that for scripting-intense workloads such as the > Git build, glibc's qsort will read /proc/meminfo for every process > created (by way of get_phys_pages()), which causes the Git build > to generate a surprising amount of kernel overhead.
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