Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Oct 2017 19:33:58 +0200 | From | Michal Hocko <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] mm/map_contig: Add mmap(MAP_CONTIG) support |
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On Mon 16-10-17 11:02:24, Cristopher Lameter wrote: > On Mon, 16 Oct 2017, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > > So I mmap(MAP_CONTIG) 1GB working of working memory, prefer some data > > > structures there, maybe recieve from network, then decide to write > > > some and not write some other. > > > > Why would you want this? > > Because we are receiving a 1GB block of data and then wan to write it to > disk. Maybe we want to modify things a bit and may not write all that we > received.
And why do you need that in a single contiguous numbers? If performance, do you have any numbers that would clearly tell the difference?
-- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs
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